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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

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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