We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
NOVALISNature is a petrified magic city.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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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 true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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