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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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