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

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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking

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