What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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