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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
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
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

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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