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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.

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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
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
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
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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman

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