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"Novalis" was the pseudonym of "Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg" (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

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

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A character is a completely fashioned will.

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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. -Novalis
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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of "Munich" may exceed the original error of 1938.

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Where no gods are, spectres rule.

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There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. -Novalis
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

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Where children are, there is the golden age. -Novalis
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Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.

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