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

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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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

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

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