| Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| A useless life is an early death. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| If I love you, what business is it of yours? |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
more quotations on [Genius] [Inner Child] |
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| The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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