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Humanity is a comic role.

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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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