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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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 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
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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

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