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About Novalis

Portrait of Novalis

Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), better known by his pen name Novalis (; German: [noˈvaːlɪs]), was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure in Jena Romanticism.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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Nature is a petrified magic city.

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

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

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Photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife were having lunch with astronaut Neil Armstrong after a photo session. Armstrong politely questioned the couple about the many different countries they had visited. "But, Mr. Armstrong," protested Mrs. Karsh, "you've walked on the moon. We want to hear about your travels."
"But that's the only place I've ever been," replied Armstrong apologetically.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.… I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveler and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines.

—H. M. Tomlinson

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt

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History

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