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

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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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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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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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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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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