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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.
NovalisNovalis A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NovalisNovalis 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.
NovalisNovalis Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NovalisNovalis You are alone with everything you love.
NovalisNovalis One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NovalisNovalis A God-intoxicated man.
NovalisNovalis The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NovalisNovalis In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NovalisNovalis We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
NovalisNovalis Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
NovalisNovalis Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NovalisNovalis Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NovalisNovalis When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NovalisNovalis Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NovalisNovalis All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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George CarlinGeorge Carlin Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!
RihannaRihanna Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly!
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.
Elvis PresleyElvis Presley A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
EuripidesEuripides Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla