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"The
world must be made romantic. Then once more we shall discover its original
meaning. To make something romantic is nothing else but a qualitative
potentialization. In such an operation, the lower self becomes identified
with the higher self. We ourselves are this series of qualitative potentials...
Insofar as I render a higher meaning to what is ordinary, a mysterious
appearance to what is customary, an infinite look to the finite, I am
romanticizing....Nothing is more romantic than what we customarily call
the world and fate."
--Novalis
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