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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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 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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe

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