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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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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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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

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

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