Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
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You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.
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There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
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The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
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I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
