Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISOnly 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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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