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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

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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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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