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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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
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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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