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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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