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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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