You are alone with everything you love.
NOVALISWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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