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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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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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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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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.
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