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Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.

— Ludwig Klages Rhythmen und Runen (1944)

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A man who cannot climb a tree will boast of never having fallen out of one.

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The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it.

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Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.

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Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.

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Christianity is the war against sleep and dream.

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