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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

A useless life is an early death.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.