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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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Frankfurt/Main
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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