What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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