Novalis

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Poet and writer · German · 1772–1801

German poet and writer (1772–1801)

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“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a societ...”
— Novalis