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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

1749–1832

60 quotes, most often on Love, Art and Talking. Part of the Poets collection.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Love
- Marriage
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Love
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
Das Märchen (1795), as translated by Hermann J. Weigand in Wisdom and Experience (1949)
- Love
Though you’re a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
The world isn’t the world, and Rome can’t be Rome.
Roman Elegies (1789), Elegy 1
- Love
My peace is gone,
My heart is sore:
I never shall find it,
Ah, nevermore!
Faust (1808), Scene XVIn context
- Emotion
- Love

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