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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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There is no patriotic art.
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