Novalis Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 2, 1772 - March 25, 1801
Birthday: May 2
Death: March 25
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
source: "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 105, 1798.
topic: Clever, Opponents, Way, Manifold, Castration, French Revolution
