Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
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Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, 'That were to consider it too curiously.'
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
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The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.
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On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together.
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Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
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It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.
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La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life.
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Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.
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I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.
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The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.