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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

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