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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization

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