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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

“Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. ”
― Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“Where are we really going? Always home.”
― Novalis

“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
― Novalis

“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”
― Novalis

“Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.”
― Novalis

“Humanity is a comic role. ”
― Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.”
― Novalis

“One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.”
― Novalis

“To philosophize means to make vivid.”
― Novalis

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. ”
― Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“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.”
― Novalis

“Die Welt muß romantisiert werden. So findet man den ursprünglichen Sinn wieder. Romantisieren ist nichts, als eine qualitative Potenzierung. Das niedre Selbst wird mit einem bessern Selbst in dieser Operation identifiziert. (…) Indem ich dem Gemeinen einen hohen Sinn, dem Gewöhnlichen ein geheimnisvolles Ansehn, dem Bekannten die Würde des Unbekannten, dem Endlichen einen unendlichen Schein gebe so romantisiere ich es.”
― Novalis

“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
― Novalis

“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand”
― Novalis

“Play is experimenting with chance.”
― Novalis

“Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven. ”
― Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
― Novalis

“Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört, der weiß wie Wolken schmecken.”
― Novalis

“Inni nie przeżyli niczego podobnego, choć wysłuchali tych samych opowieści”
― Novalis

“Трябва да бъдем горди за болката, всяка болка е едно напомняне за нашата извисеност.”
― Novalis

“„Да станеш човек е изкуство.”
― Novalis

“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”
― Novalis

“Aynı masalları dinlemelerine rağmen ötekiler hiç böyle bir şey yaşamadılar.”
― Novalis