"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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