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Character is perfectly educated will.

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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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure

Character is perfectly educated will.

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