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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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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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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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