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Literary Inspirational Quotes (2629)

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If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
Hermann Hesse
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.
Rumi
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke
Hermann Hesse
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Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you.
Rumi
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.
Rumi
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The love religion is all that is written here.
Rumi
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Rumi
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.
Hermann Hesse
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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