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A character is a completely fashioned will.

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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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water

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