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Listed by Author 'johann wolfgang von goethe'
"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator."
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."
"Plunge boldly into the thick of life!"
"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
"Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling."
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
