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You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
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
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
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word

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