"For the nature of women is closely..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
“Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.”
“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”
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“You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.”
“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?”
“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”
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“Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.”
“Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.”
“The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.”