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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection

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