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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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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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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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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To create something you must be something.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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