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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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