What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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