Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALISI often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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