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

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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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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 lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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

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

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