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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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