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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
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Botanist
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Literary
Frankfurt/Main
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Attain
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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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I wait for the morning of my tears
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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