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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk 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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water

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