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State Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
- Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
- A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension…
- To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
- We cannot remain long in a conscious state or in consciousness, we must take refuge again in the unconscious since there are our roots.
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