Novalis Quotes on Life
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Das hochste Leben ist Mathematik.
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Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by Passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit.
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Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.
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Plants are Children of the Earth; we are Children of the ?ther. Our Lungs are properly our Root; we live, when we breathe; we begin our life with breathing.
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Death is a victory over the self - which, like all self-conquest, brings about a new, easier existence.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning - at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Romanticize the world.
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In this season, Novalis lived only to his sorrow; it was natural for him to regard the visible and the invisible world as one; and to distinguish Life and Death only by his longing for the latter. At the same time too, Life became for him a glorified Life; and his whole being melted away as into a bright, conscious vision of a higher Existence. ... He remained many weeks in Thuringia; and came back comforted and truly purified, to his engagements; which he pursued more zealously than ever, though he now regarded himself as a stranger on the earth.