The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISOne should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The 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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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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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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