There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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