In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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