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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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