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“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with
the ideal never goes unpunished.”

-- Goethe


What we do not understand we do not possess.
-- Goethe


It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do,
that makes life blessed.
-- Goethe


The eternal feminine draws us upward.
-- Goethe


What we do not understand we do not possess.
- Goethe


Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Goethe


Life is the childhood of our immortality.
-- Goethe


You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness.
-- Goethe


The unnatural, that too is natural.
- Goethe


It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do,
that makes life blessed.
-- Goethe


Euch ist becannt, was wir beduerfen;
Wir wollen stark Getraenke schluerfen.
-- Goethe, "Faust"


Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
-- Goethe


A pretty foot is one of the greatest gifts of nature... please send me your
last pair of shoes, already worn out in dancing... so I can have something
of yours to press against my heart.
-- Goethe


“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with
the ideal never goes unpunished.”
-- Goethe


All things are only transitory.

-- Goethe


What we do not understand we do not possess.
-- Goethe


Life is the childhood of our immortality.
-- Goethe


Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green.
-- Goethe


Where there is much light there is also much shadow.
-- Goethe


You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness.
-- Goethe


A pretty foot is one of the greatest gifts of nature... please send me your
last pair of shoes, already worn out in dancing... so I can have something
of yours to press against my heart.
-- Goethe


Where there is much light there is also much shadow.
-- Goethe


Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
-- Goethe


Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green.
-- Goethe


The eternal feminine draws us upward.
-- Goethe


Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Goethe


Euch ist becannt, was wir beduerfen;
Wir wollen stark Getraenke schluerfen.
-- Goethe, "Faust"