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5 years ago

Novalis Quotes
German - Poet May 2, 1772 - March 25, 1801

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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anneliese32
5 years ago
Romanticist are not my favorite poets and writers and I must admit that I never really paid attention to Novalis in school and definitely not after. For me, nature is not a petrified magic city, for me it is the most alive world.
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I can post again!!! Anything which can go wrong on the internet connections went wrong this week. I keep my fingers crossed that it stays as is right now. Taking my last few days in consideration, I can only agree with the first quote and like the others.
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I know #2 is truth - I am an expert (smiling)
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