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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams

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