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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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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

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