There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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