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Humanity is a comic role.
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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.
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