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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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A character is a completely fashioned will.

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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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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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