Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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One 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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