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On all the peaks lies peace.

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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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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