Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
NOVALISOnly an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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.
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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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