There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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