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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

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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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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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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.
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