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• “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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

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• “Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.”

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• “To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

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• “Where are we really going? Always home.”

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• “In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.”

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

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• “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.”

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• “We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.”

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• “Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.”

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

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

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• “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.”

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• “Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”

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• “The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.”

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• “The imagination places the world of the future either far above us, or far below, or in a relation of metempsychosis to ourselves. We dream of traveling through the universe—but is not the universe within ourselves? The depths of our spirit are unknown to us—the mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds—the past and future—is in ourselves or nowhere. The external world is the world of shadows—it throws its shadow into the realm of light. At present this realm certainly seems to us so dark inside, lonely, shapeless. But how entirely different it will seem to us—when this gloom is past, and the body of shadows has moved away. We will experience greater enjoyment than ever, for our spirit has been deprived.”

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• “Oh draw at my heart, love,
  Draw till I'm gone,
  That, fallen asleep, I
  Still may love on.
  I feel the flow of
  Death's youth-giving flood
  To balsam and ether
  Transform my blood --
  I live all the daytime
  In faith and in might
  And in holy fire
  I die every night.”

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• “Humanity is a comic role.”

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

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• “To philosophize means to make vivid.”

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• “Every individual is the center of a system of emanation.”

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• “But even more heavenly than the flashing
  stars are those infinite eyes which the night opens within us, and which see further even than the palest of those
  innumerable hosts.”

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• “And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.”

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• “How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.”

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• “Play is experimenting with chance.”

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