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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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