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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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

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