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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 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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious

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