Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
Jackie Mason
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
Warren Farrell
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
Jack Vance
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
Wallace Stevens
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If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed … Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit … heads for disaster.
Albert Schweitzer
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Ball, Theater, Gesellschaft, Kartenspiel, Hasardspiel, Pferde, Weiber, Trinken, Reisen, … reicht dies Alles gegen die Langeweile nicht aus, wo Mangel an geistigen Bedürfnissen die geistigen Genüsse unmöglich macht. Daher auch ist dem Philister ein dumpfer, trockener Ernst, der sich dem thierischen nähert, eigen und charakteristisch.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
Nadine Gordimer
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I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.
Bo Derek
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Paris Hilton
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe