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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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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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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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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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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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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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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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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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