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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
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
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

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