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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World

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