A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn 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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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