I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
NOVALISCharacter is a wish for a perfect education.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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