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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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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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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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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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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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Life's objective is life itself.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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