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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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 badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength

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