Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Many 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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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