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

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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
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

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