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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic.
* He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
* His work includes plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.
* Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on August 28, 1749.
* He died in Weimar, Germany, on March 22, 1832.
* Goethe's most famous work is the play Faust, which is considered one of the greatest works of literature in the world.
* Goethe's work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought.
* He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western culture.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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If you would create something,you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

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Everything is hard before it is easy

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

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