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.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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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.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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