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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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