What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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