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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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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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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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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