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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Let there be truth between us.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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