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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
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

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