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Character is a wish for a perfect education.

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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
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
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
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself

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