Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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