When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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