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

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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic

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

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