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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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