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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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