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Literature Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
- Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
- If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much…
- Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
- Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
- National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.
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