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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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