Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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