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What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful!

— Friedrich Hölderlin

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What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

The heart's wave would not foam up so beautifully and become spirit, if the ancient, mute rock, fate, did not stand opposed to it.

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania
Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Wherein lies the danger, grows also the saving power.

He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.

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