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Let there be truth between us.
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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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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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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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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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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