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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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
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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