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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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