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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

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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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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