A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Remember to live.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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