Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISIt is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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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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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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