The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISEverything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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