Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALISPoetry 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 philosophize means to make vivid.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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