I wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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