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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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