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  Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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• Every Englishman is an island.

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• A character is a perfectly cultivated will.

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• Death is the romantic principle of Life. Death is-life. Through death life is intensified.

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

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

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• Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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• Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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• Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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• A character is a completely fashioned will.

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•  Nature is a petrified magic city.

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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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• We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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• Where no gods are, spectres rule.

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• We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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• We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

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Birth:	2nd May, 1772
Death:	25th March, 1801
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Civil Engineer, Philosopher, Writer, Poet

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