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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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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.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Method will teach you to win time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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