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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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

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