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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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