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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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 brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
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
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
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
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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
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

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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