All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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Remember to live.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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 all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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