If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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