Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALISLife is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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 but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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