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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.
Novalis
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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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