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Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
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The solution of every problem is another problem.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The aim of living is life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We don't get to know anything but what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe