I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Remember to live.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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