Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISThe 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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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