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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play

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