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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Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
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A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
