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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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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Book End Infinite Reason
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
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
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

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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