Everything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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We 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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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