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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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Collectors are happy people.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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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.
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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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