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Poets and priests were one in the beginning, and they only separated in later times. But the real poet is always a priest, just as the real priest always remains a poet.

— Novalis Blüthenstaub (1798)

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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"Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." Translated by Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (1965).

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

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