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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought many more, to be spoken.
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The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
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