"I am very anxious to please the..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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“That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.”
“Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?”
“We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!”
More on Public Opinion
“Power is founded upon opinion.”
“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”
“Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”