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.
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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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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