What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar.

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Alternative Names: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe • Q5879 • Goethe • Johann Wolfgang Goethe • Johann Wolfgang von Göthe • Johann Wolfgang Göthe • Göthe
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Additional quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent — That is my proper element.
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