In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALISThe Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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