In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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