Where children are, there is the golden age.
NOVALISThe individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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 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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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