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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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