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.
NOVALISHumanity is a comic role.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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