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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
Novalis
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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
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Lyricist
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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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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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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