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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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