The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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