Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Women are amazing lovers.
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I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
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I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!
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I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
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Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
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I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.
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A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
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Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
