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No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  3. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  8. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  10. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11. For in music there is no material to be deducted. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  15. Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  20. We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  22. Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  26. Each one sees what he carries in his heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  27. Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  28. There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  29. Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  30. Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  31. Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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