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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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On every mountain height is rest.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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To create something you must be something.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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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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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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