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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
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
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel

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