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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

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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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
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
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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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