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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel

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