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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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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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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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