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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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