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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The little man is still a man.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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