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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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