I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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