We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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The 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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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