What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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