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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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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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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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In art, the best is good enough.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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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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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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