One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISMany books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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