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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
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 true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River

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