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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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 the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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