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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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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 is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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