Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
NOVALISEvery disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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