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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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