Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALISAll the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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