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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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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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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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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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