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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly 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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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