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All understanding begins in wonder!

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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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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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