A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISIn a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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