Our bodies are molded rivers.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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