Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There always have been funny women.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.
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That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
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From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
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A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
