By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The 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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