Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
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von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, Oliver & Boyd, 1824.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.