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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
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The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
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Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
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