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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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