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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You can't win what you don't fight for.
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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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Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
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[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
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A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.
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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
