"I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one."
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"I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe."
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"When one is polite in German, one lies."
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"In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making."
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"No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's."
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"Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered."
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"Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere."
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"Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World"
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"We have time enough if we but use it aright"
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"The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both."
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"Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought."
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"The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be."
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"Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it."
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"A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing."
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"I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one."
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"Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me."
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"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age."
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"Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend."
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"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
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"If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away."
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