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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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