"Certain defects are necessary for the existence..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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“I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.”
“All perishable is but an allegory.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
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“The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?”
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
“When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world”