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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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