Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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