The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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