Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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There 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 deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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