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

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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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
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 is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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

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