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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

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