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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman

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