Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Eigentümlichkeit des Ausdruckes ist Anfang und Ende aller Kunst

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Self-expression Art

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language

German

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Spruche in Prosa Maximen und Reflexionen [Sayings in Prose, Maxims and Reflections]. 1819, no. 739.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005, no. 739.

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Iphigenia in Tauris
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Taurus]. 1779, Ducal private theater, Weimar, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Iphigenia in Tauris." Goethe: The Collected Works: Verse Plays and Epic, edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Vol. 8, Princeton University Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 4.

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I wear the chain I forged in life.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 1.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 1.

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In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti

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Value of life Hypothetical situations Relative value Cats Art
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Alberto Giacometti
Genre
Biography
Language
Unclear
Time
20th century
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Citation

Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. Macmillan, 1997, ch. 44.

Another quote originally in German

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century beings it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Nature of time

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Thomas Mann
Source
The Magic Mountain
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1924 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 5.