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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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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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