Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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