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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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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
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
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

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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