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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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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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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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