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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #forward #game #ideas #like

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#knew #misunderstood #much #often #others

The coward only threatens when he is safe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #safe #threatens

Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mastery #often #passes

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#convictions #doubts #i #keep #listen

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#colored #day #i #more #night

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#appear #beautiful #clarity #dream #experience

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#important #language #listen #more #nature

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#anybody #between #body #child #diverting

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#catastrophic #chance #could #drink #evening