The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISEvery beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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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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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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