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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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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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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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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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