One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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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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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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