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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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

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