A God-intoxicated man.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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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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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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