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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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