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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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