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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

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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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

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