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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

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🇫🇷Napoleon I of France

Politics

1769–1821

"A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination."

"My heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together."

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Charles II of England

Politics

1630–1685

"I am sure no man in England will take away my life to make you King."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy."

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🇺🇸William Randolph Hearst

Politics

1863–1951

"Guide to the William Randolph Hearst Papers at The Bancroft Library"

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🇺🇸Herman Melville

creative and professional writing

Romanticism

1819–1891

"You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in."

"You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic."

"I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do."

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own."

"It seems to me that art is a great miracle-it is the showing forth of the Holy Spirit transubstantiation.It is to find and proclaim the poetry of life,without which there is no life."

"The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free."

"The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!"

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Alexander III of Russia

"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."

🇩🇪Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Art

Impressionism

1884–1976

"..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices."

"I am searching for a tone, which we call 'colored grey'. I mean that all colors, even the strongest, can be brought together in such a way as to give the impression of a warm, vital grey."

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George III of the United Kingdom

Politics

1738–1820

"pon pain of the highest displeasure, to assent to no law by which the importation of slaves should be in any respect prohibited or obstructed."

"Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others."

"Our biggest financiers are China, Russia and the gulf states. These are rivals, not allies."

"After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things."

"He was my counsel in affairs, was my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, and the genius that presided over poor Strawberry."

"I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be."

"There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me."

"It is very much like Chicano art..It is sophisticated and primitive simultaneously. The scenes would play out and ... the comedy would be absorbed rather than having it jammed down ."

"is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else."

"If you think research is expensive, try disease."

"Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn."

"Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart."

"What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?"

"Many people have fled from our China to your place"

"I dare be bold to affirm that, had the King of France beaten us, as we have done him, he would have been so modest as to have given us better terms than we have gained after all our glorious victories."

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