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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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection

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