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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk

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