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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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