#eat

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

#creature #ended #him #himself #his

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #had #me #otherwise #wanted

The coward only threatens when he is safe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #safe #threatens

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#could #individual #ought #treat #were

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #biggest #biggest problem #create #every

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #great #great talent #happiness #really

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#death #eternity #good #good man #looking

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#even #evils #fate #fear #greatest

To create something you must be something. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#must #something #you