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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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