I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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