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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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