“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirre...”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, pantheism, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
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“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirre...”
“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”
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“I see no end to my misery but the grave.”
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“A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.”
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“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
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“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes t...”
“Wir sollen es mit den Kindern machen wie Gott mit uns, der uns am glücklichsten macht, wenn er uns in freundlichem Wahne so hintaumeln läßt.”
“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.”
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
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“Wir reiten in die Kreuz und Quer Nach Freuden und Geschäften; Doch immer kläfft es hinterher Und bellt aus allen Kräften. So will der Spitz aus unserm Stall Uns immerfort begleiten, Und sein...”
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“He who doesn't see his lover's faults as virtues is not in love.”
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“He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing...”
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“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
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“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
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“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
“من هرگز در حسرت بال پرندگان نخواهم بود. جذبه های جانم، از کتابی به کتاب دیگر و از صفحه ای به صفحه ی دیگر مرا به جاهای بسیار دورتر می برند.”
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.”
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“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
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“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”
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“Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.”
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