In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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