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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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We make nothing; we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from formless chaos.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, — all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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A. N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
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What people will say — in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
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Berthold Auerbach
Born:
February 28, 1812
Died:
February 8, 1882
(aged 69)
Bio:
Berthold Auerbach was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.
Known for:
Barfussele (1856)
On the heights
Black forest village stories
Landolin
Villa Eden: the country-house on the Rhine
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