Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.
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Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
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Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.
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Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
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People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.
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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
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One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
