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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Art Critic
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Frankfurt/Main
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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