The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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