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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun

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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