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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True 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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water

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