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

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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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose

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