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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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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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Life's objective is life itself.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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