We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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