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.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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