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A character is a completely fashioned will.

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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

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