To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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