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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.


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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.



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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.



We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.



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