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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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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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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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