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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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 brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical

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