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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
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
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
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
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

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