Everything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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