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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

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