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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
Novalis
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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
Engineer
Literary Theorist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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