von Goethe quotes

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~A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~A person hears only what they understand.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~Doubt grows with knowledge.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~Few people have the imagination for reality.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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~It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~Life is the childhood of our immortality.
~~~~~~~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe