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Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 4 quotes · Ifs, Men, Art

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“People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.”