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I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

"Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

"'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

Man errs as long as he strives.

Faust pt. 1 "Prolog im Himmel" (1808)

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

One lives but once in the world.

"Clavigo". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1774.