Love quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
"This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."
"Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
"Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."
"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."