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 GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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 greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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