When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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