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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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