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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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