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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
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
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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point

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