Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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