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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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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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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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The world remains ever the same.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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