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Curious book about discovery, direction, and predetermined destination by secret society. An alter is prepared covered in green tapestry. Wilhelm enters the inner sanctum, his life revealed as a program, a stage act; all his movements known and precalculated by mysterious hidden hand. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, published 1795 Greg.
I dislike Wilhelm. He’s the kind of man you tolerate only because his actresses are fluttering nearby and you want access. Wilhelm is a fool. Everybody knows it.
Goethe taunts us the entire book calling him, “Our friend.”
Note to self: Don’t become a Wilhelm. You cannot be actor and manager at same time.
The other actors will disdain you, the public will call you amateur, real talent will pass you by like a freight train.
What is real talent? It’s Mignon of course. Her skill and performance like a nesting doll of surprise, intrigue, and glamour. She knows more about life than Wilhelm. She’s thirteen, she dresses like a boy, she dances the egg dance, she sings the sweetest refrain.
Phelina, now here’s one to watch. A chameleon cat that fits herself into every fancy her adoring suitors and patrons want to see and feel. She immediately senses your thoughts and affects her character to match. Watch out for this one.
I also enjoyed Mariana, in a white negligee, free and easy like a nightingale song.
Aurelia, she’s a scorned lover and sister of Serlo. Too spiteful and crestfallen for my taste.
Brothers and Sisters: I’ll never understand you.
Serlo is the real man and actor of the book. If you could act like Serlo you would. He’s got talent, looks, money, and mistresses. He plays Wilhelm like a Texas fiddle. His insights are always correct. He’s the manager and only takes Wilhelm on for money and sport.
The story goes on and on. Mignon is dangled before us like sweetmeats on a serving tray. Mariana is reintroduced, Phelina goes missing, your musician friend is in the asylum.
Goethe introduces the book within a book, “Confessions of a Fair Saint“. Using the effect to juxtapose the actor’s life to that of a penitent daughter from noble German family. I can’t tell you how many times I praised the text, thinking it right, good, and true, and then, before the paragraph is through, I throw up my hands and call bullshit on the entire proceedings.
Double entendre by Goethe in Confessions of a Fair Saint, “how thankful did I feel that he had pleased to quicken me with the breath of his mouth!“
Her journal of deep pious insight secret code for constrained, artificial subsistence with invisible friend(s).
Book VI in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship; “Confessions of a Fair Saint” – A stand alone novella – Read it here – https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36483/36483-h/36483-h.htm#BOOK_VI
The brother sister Sperata story is uncomfortable. I want to say more, but afraid to reveal malformed conceptions and inappropriate wrongness.
Brothers and Sisters; I’ll never understand you.
The Mignon reveal
The Mignon reveal. I raced through the last one hundred and fifty pages. I don’t give a damn about Wilhelm, Natalia, Teresa, Lothorio, Jarno, the Abbe. What’s to happen with our sweet Mignon? Get to the payoff already.
Schadow’s Mignon (1828)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Meister’s_Apprenticeship#/media/File:Schadow,Friedrich_Wilhelm_von–Mignon-_1828.jpg
Confluence of Synchronicity. I keep seeing you everywhere. Mignon is a miracle. A lion sits beside Venus. Our meetings are a pleasure. You are the spark. I love you.
Finally, I would like to say to Mr. Goethe. I will never read your miserable text ever again. Fuck you very much.
Full disclosure: I may read your Elective Affinities in the future, but certainly not now. My brains are thoroughly whipped by your crazy German metaphysics.
Back to the fairy romantics.
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Book Review
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Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Highlight: I love him! I love him! With what rapture do I now, for the first time, speak the word! This is the passion I have mimicked so often, when I knew not what it meant. Yes! I will throw myself about his neck: I will clasp him as if I could hold him forever. I will show him all my love, will enjoy all his in its whole extent.
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Highlight: for she had first appeared before him in the flattering light of theatric pomp, and his passion for the stage combined itself with his earliest love for woman.
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Highlight: III. If the first love is indeed, as I hear it everywhere maintained to be, the most delicious feeling which the heart of man, before it or after, can experience, then our hero must be reckoned doubly happy, as permitted to enjoy the pleasure of this chosen period in all its fulness.
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Notes: So far so good.
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Highlight: These enigmas perplexed me the more, as I wished to be at the same time among the enchanters and the enchanted, at the same time to have a secret hand in the play, and to enjoy, as a looker-on, the pleasure of illusion.
Notes: The spectacle. To be enchanted and the enchanter.
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Highlight: After a little, it first struck me that I yet comprehended nothing: and here I was right; for the connection of the parts with each other was entirely unknown to me, and every thing depends on that.
Notes: Understanding the connexion.
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Notes: The stories.
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Highlight: the fragrance which the puppets had acquired from the storeroom added not a little to my satisfaction.
Notes: Aromatics
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Notes: Good question.
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Highlight: Destiny had marked him out ever unwittingly to injure what he loved beyond all else.
Notes: I’m sorry. I love you.
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Notes: I want it all.
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Notes: Prefer happy ending.
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Highlight: Formed as a queen, in her thoughts and looks she announced herself the child of freedom. The feeling of her own worth gave her dignity without pride: her apparel became her, it veiled her form without constraining it; and the rich folds repeated, like a thousand-voiced echo, the graceful movements of the goddess.
Notes: Hello my love!
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Highlight: disinherited and naked, I gave myself up to the Muse; she threw her golden veil over me, and called me hers.
Notes: I am yours!
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Highlight: She is mine! She has given herself up to me! She, the loved, the wished for, the adored, has given herself up to me in trust and faith: she shall not find me ungrateful for the gift.
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Highlight: What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry! It is among the finest inventions of the human mind: every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.
Notes: Credit/debit unaccountable system financial scam.
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Notes: You are a blessing.
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Highlight: how beautiful, how lovely! She received him in the new white negligée:
Notes: Nice to see you.
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Highlight: What can I wish?” said Mariana; “I am miserable, miserable for life: I love him, and he loves me; yet I see that I must part with him, and know not how I shall survive it. Norberg is coming, to whom we owe our whole subsistence, whom we cannot live without. Wilhelm is straitened in his fortune: he can do nothing for me.
Notes: The rival is more succesful.
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Notes: A woman able to foretell the future.
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Highlight: In truth, one would need to have a hide like a bear’s, that is led about in a chain along with apes, and dogs of knowledge, and cudgelled into dancing at the sound of a bagpipe before the populace and children.
Notes: Acting for profession.
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Highlight: Nothing upon earth without its difficulties! It is the secret impulse within, it is the love and the delight we feel, that help us to conquer obstacles, to clear out new paths, and to overleap the bounds of that narrow circle in which others poorly toil.
Notes: The Experience.
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Highlight: pleasant fantasies softly conducted him into the kingdom of sleep, and then gave him up to their sisters, sweet dreams, who received him with open arms, and encircled his
Notes: Dreaming of you.
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Notes: Cheerful. Full of energy.
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Highlight: The first steps that introduce us to the enchanted garden of love are so full of pleasure, the first prospects so charming, that every one is willing to recall them to his memory. Each party seeks a preference above the other; each has loved sooner, more devotedly; and each, in this contest, would rather be conquered than conquer.
Notes: When first we meet.
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Highlight: we two shall yet appear to men as a pair of chosen spirits, to unlock their hearts, to touch the recesses of their nature, and prepare for them celestial joys, as surely as the joys I have tasted with thee deserved to be named celestial,
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Highlight: but when I consider that it was a necessary means of awakening a taste in me, of developing a talent, which will operate far more powerfully on my history than ever those lifeless pictures could have done, I easily content myself, and honor destiny, which knows how to bring about what is best for me, and what is best for every one.
Notes: Art and destiny.
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Highlight: But the art of living rightly is like all arts: the capacity alone is born with us; it must be learned, and practised with incessant care.
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Highlight: He again sat still for a moment, and figured her behind her curtains in the white night-gown, with the red ribbon round her head, in sweet repose:
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Highlight: he felt his existence like a golden dream. “She, too, hears these flutes,” said he within his heart: “she feels whose remembrance, whose love of her, it is that makes the night full of music. In distance, even, we are united by these melodies, as in every separation, by the ethereal accordance of love.
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Highlight: For, if it is hard to give up a woman’s love, no less painful is the task to part from the fellowship of the Muses, to declare ourselves forever undeserving to be of their community,
Notes: She has left me.
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Highlight: For each man commonly defends himself as long as possible from casting out the idols which he worships in his soul, from acknowledging a master
Notes: Repentance and atonement for error.
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Highlight: Because each man who has no gift for producing first-rate works, should entirely abstain from the pursuit of art, and seriously guard himself against every deception on that subject.
Notes: Misery.
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Highlight: What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate.
Notes: Anticipation is half the fun.
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Highlight: The youngest child came forward dressed in white, and made a speech in verse; by which the whole family, and even the head forester himself, whom it brought in mind of his own children, were melted into tears.
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Highlight: A short silk waistcoat with slashed Spanish sleeves, tight trousers with puffs, looked very pretty on the child. Its long black hair was curled, and wound in locks and plaits about the head. He looked at the figure with astonishment, and could not determine whether to take it for a boy or a girl.
Notes: Peter Pan
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Highlight: We must lose no time,” said she: “who knows how short a while we may all be together?”
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Highlight: Yes: I am her friend, because she represents the sex so truly, which I have so much cause to hate. To me she is another genuine Eve, the great mother of womankind: so are they all, only they will not all confess it.”
Notes: Hello Eve. I love you.
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Highlight: Men who put a great value on gardens, buildings, clothes, ornaments, or any other sort of property, grow less social and pleasant: they lose sight of their brethren, whom very few can succeed in collecting about them and entertaining.
Notes: Fact check.
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Highlight: But who would think a moment on the music or the weather? It is the dancer that interests us, not the violin; and to look upon a pair of bright black eyes is the life of a pair of blue ones.
Notes: Hmmmm.
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Highlight: What a precious emotion would it give, if one could disseminate generous, exalted, manly feelings with electric force and speed, and rouse assembled thousands into such rapture, as these people, by their bodily alertness, have done!
Notes: The actor.
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0Highlight: never had his judgment of a lovely form been more favorable. How dangerous, in such a situation, this wild girl must have been to him, is but too easy to conceive.
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Highlight: The charge of providing for a wife, perhaps soon for a child, forbids me from day to day to live at peace, or spend my time as you may do, in the enjoyment of pleasant feelings.
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Highlight: Ye lead us forth into this life, Where comfort soon by guilt is banished, Abandon us to tortures, strife; For on this earth all guilt is punished.
Notes: Clean up your act.
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Highlight: All that was lying frozen at my heart thou hast melted, and put in motion. Let me not disturb thee, but continue, in solacing thy own sorrows, to confer happiness upon a friend.
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Highlight: Nothing is more touching than the first disclosure of a love which has been nursed in silence, of a faith grown strong in secret, and which at last comes forth in the hour of need, and reveals itself to him who formerly has reckoned it of small account. The bud, which had been closed so long and firmly, was now ripe to burst its swathings;
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Highlight: Her long hair had loosened, and was hanging down before her: it seemed as if her whole being was melting incessantly into a brook of tears.
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Highlight: From their very birth, they are placed, as it were, in a ship, which, in this voyage we have all to make, enables them to profit by the favorable winds, and to ride out the cross ones; while others, bare of help, must wear their strength away in swimming, can derive little profit from the favorable breeze, and in the storm must soon become exhausted, and sink to the bottom.
Notes: Lizard people own everything.
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Highlight: unwilling to let slip this opportunity of examining the great world, where he expected to obtain much insight into life, into himself, and the dramatic art.
Notes: Let’s meetup.
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Highlight: The beautiful eyes of the countess, and her lovely demeanor, would easily have moved him to sin against his conscience as a poet; to abandon the finest and most interesting invention, the keenly wished-for unity of his composition, and all its most suitable details.
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Notes: Ask Circe. https://books.google.com/books?id=m3JZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Highlight: To look upon each other, was to them the sweetest satisfaction; to which their harmless souls yielded without reserve, without cherishing a bolder wish, or thinking about any consequence.
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Highlight: renounce not the purpose of embarking in active life. Make haste to employ with alacrity the years that are granted you. If I can serve you, I will with all my heart.
Notes: Let me know if there’s ANYTHING I can do for you.
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Highlight: as that gentleman and she already stood in a relation to each other where it is not usual to be very cautious in keeping secrets.
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Notes: Hehe.
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Notes: A Lion Sits Beside You
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Notes: She is the Holy Spirit.
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Highlight: It seemed as if the worth and dignity of gold, not usually felt till later years, had now, by anticipation, twinkled in his eyes for the first time, as the fine, glancing coins rolled out from the beautiful purse.
Notes: To hold you in hand.
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Notes: It’s all a show.
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Notes: Inexorable destiny.
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Notes: Invincible tendency.
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Highlight: one must love them for their own sake, or entirely renounce them. And neither of them is acknowledged and rewarded, except when their possessor can practise them unseen, like a dangerous secret.
Notes: Talent and virtue.
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Notes: Playing a part.
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Notes: she’s an angel.
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Highlight: The lovely being, whom this garment lately covered, had affected him to the very heart. He still saw the coat falling down from her shoulders; saw that noble form, begirt with radiance, stand beside him; and his soul hied over rocks and forests on the footsteps of his vanished benefactress.
Notes: Excellent work.
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Notes: Hot and bothered.
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Notes: A man’s greatcoat.
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Notes: hehe – watching you sleep.
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Highlight: she again came forth with her attentions and her love, again was eager in serving, and lively in entertaining, him.
Notes: Filet Mignon.
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Notes: Declare or state solomemnly or emphatically.
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Notes: Ripe sensation.
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Highlight: Decorum, like the thin lawn upon her bosom, cannot hide the soft, still movements of her heart: it, on the contrary, betrays them. Her fancy is smit; her silent modesty breathes amiable desire; and, if the friendly goddess Opportunity should shake the tree, its fruit would fall.
Notes: Opportunity goddess.
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Notes: Good question.
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Notes: She’s got a blade!
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Notes: Curious.
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Highlight: the deepest abysses of invention are not hidden from you, the finest touches of representation cannot escape you. Without ever having viewed the objects in nature, you recognize the truth of their images: there seems, as it were, a presentiment of all the universe to lie in you, which by the harmonious touch of poetry is awakened and unfolded.
Notes: Agreed.
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Highlight: And if you reflect, that up from the whisking shopman and the conceited merchant’s son, to the polished, calculating man of the world, the bold soldier, and the impetuous prince, all in succession passed in review before me, each in his way endeavoring to found his small romance, you will pardon me if I conceived that I had gained some acquaintance with my nation.
Notes: hehe – how are they measuring up, my dear?
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Notes: Are you not entertained?
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Notes: Most men are clowns.
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Highlight: all these I have seen in motion; and I swear to you, that there were few among them fitted to inspire me even with a sentiment of toleration: on the contrary, I felt it altogether irksome to collect, with tedium and annoyance, the suffrages of fools;
Notes: Hehe. foolish parade of dunces. these Gd men are sad.
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Highlight: for the first time I enjoyed the pleasure of perceiving my existence reflected in the being of another.
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Notes: Talent, force, and capability.
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Notes: Don’t judge us too harshly. We love you.
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Highlight: he became aware that he had much to say about emotions and thoughts, and many experiences of the heart and spirit, but not a word concerning outward objects, on which, as he now discovered, he had not bestowed the least attention.
Notes: Lol
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Notes: Remainder of the day.
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Notes: living the dream
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Highlight: it is the nature of the Germans, that they bear heavily on every thing, that every thing bears heavily on them.
Notes: give me contentment and confidence, Father.
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Highlight: Forgive a half-crazed being,” cried she, “and regret not these few drops of blood. I am appeased. I am again myself. On my knees will I crave your pardon: leave me the comfort of healing you.
Notes: Blood oath.
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Notes: Agreed.
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Highlight: my present business is to meet my own case, as matters actually stand; to consider by what means I may save myself, and reach the object which I cannot live in peace without.
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Notes: OMG
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Notes: Greek mythology. Trojan woman.
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Notes: Fat Hamlet.
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Highlight: there is nothing more amusing than to hear an actor speak of study: it is as if freemasons were to talk of building.”
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Notes: Acting. Lying truth.
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Highlight: doubtless at the proper season he will come, and astonish us as much as the spectators.
Notes: Getting ready for the big scene.
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Highlight: But no enjoyment can be transitory; the impression which it leaves is permanent: and what is done with diligence and effort communicates to the spectator a hidden force, of which we cannot say how far its influence may reach.
Notes: Hold for applause. Let it simmer.
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Highlight: How many years the stag must wander in the forest, the fish in the river or the sea, before they can deserve to grace our table!
Notes: What’s really in the food?
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Highlight: Therefore, on all fit occasions, Mark it, maidens, what I sing: Every day its own vexations, And the night its joys, will bring.”
Notes: Daytime is for hay raking. Night for love making. Phalina verse.
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Notes: not an act.
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Highlight: She beat the tambourine with the greatest liveliness and grace: now, with her finger pressed against the parchment, she hummed across it swiftly to and fro; now rattled on it with her knuckles, now with the back of her hand; nay, sometimes, with alternating rhythm, she struck it first against her knee and then against her head; and anon twirling it in her hand, she made the shells jingle by themselves; and thus, from the simplest instrument, elicited a great variety of tones.
Notes: Wow. I just wrote about you playing the tambourine. And now reading this passage. synchronicity and coicidence seem strange. Fantastic even.
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Highlight: she now sprang up, and raved, and shook her tambourine, and capered round the table. With her hair flying out behind her, with her head thrown back, and her limbs, as it were, cast into the air, she seemed like one of those antique Mænads, whose wild and all but impossible positions still, on classic monuments, often strike us with amazement.
Notes: Tambourines and venus statues.
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Notes: Make it a habit.
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Notes: Bolt the door song by me.
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Notes: prepare room for magic.
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Highlight: she is mine; she is my Mariana! She for whom I have longed all the days of my life, she who is still more to me than all the women in this world!
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Notes: Hehe
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Highlight: it is likely he has cozened from his friends a fresh supply of money, so that he can once more live with her in peace for a while.
Notes: From the chalet. All nice and cozen.
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Notes: Peter Pan is a girl.
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Highlight: nothing more exposes us to madness than distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common sense than living in the universal way with multitudes of men.
Notes: Cut your clown hair and get some new shoes. Clean up your act.
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Highlight: Serlo and he at last agreed, with full conviction, that the sole concern was, how to gather money, and grow rich, or live a joyous life;
Notes: Serlo
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Highlight: He distinguishes himself from others, yet he may not stand apart; for as in all arts, so in this, the hardest must at length be done with ease: the well-bred man of rank, in spite of every separation, always seems united with the people round him; he is never to be stiff or uncomplying; he is always to appear the first, and never to insist on so appearing.
Notes: The well-bred man.
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Highlight: to seem well-bred, a man must actually be so. It is also clear why women generally are more expert at taking up the air of breeding than the other sex;
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Notes: Well bred.
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Notes: Mignot dresses herself in items of Wilhelm’s old girlfriend.
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Notes: Daughter
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Notes: Ask Circe. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54702/54702-h/54702-h.htm
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Highlight: It was a lamb which a peasant-girl took up and nourished in a wood; but, in the guise of this pretty beast, an enchanted prince was hid, who at length appeared in his native shape, a lovely youth, and rewarded his benefactress by his hand. Such a lamb I would have given the world for.
Notes: Prince in sheep’s clothing.
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Highlight: ! I knew, from experiences which had reached me unsought, that there are loftier emotions, which afford us a contentment such as it is vain to seek in the amusements of the world; and that, in these higher joys, there is also kept a secret treasure for strengthening the spirit in misfortune.
Notes: Fact check.
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Highlight: My most peculiar advantage lay in this, that love for quiet was my ruling passion, and that in the end I still drew back to it. I perceived, as in a kind of twilight, my weakness and my misery, and tried to save myself by avoiding danger and exposure.
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Notes: I am inclined to think so.
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Notes: Faith
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Highlight: seek out every property and beauty by which our pretension to a similarity with the Divinity may be made good.
Notes: You are the sun.
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Highlight: decision and perseverance are, in my opinion, the noblest qualities of man. You cannot have the ware and the money both at the same time; and he who always hankers for the ware without having heart to give the money for it, is no better off than he who repents him of the purchase when the ware is in his hands.
Notes: Ware in hand. I deliver the money.
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Notes: How far reaching are the powers?
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Notes: Punished in hades forced to push stone up hill forever.
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Highlight: The death of my beloved father altogether changed my mode of life. From the strictest obedience, the narrowest confinement, I passed at once into the greatest freedom: I enjoyed it like a sort of food from which one has long abstained.
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Highlight: how thankful did I feel that he had pleased to quicken me with the breath of his mouth!
Notes: Bingo
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Highlight: Is not my income still increasing? And shall I alone enjoy this growing benefit? Shall not those who labor with and for me partake, in their degree, of the advantages which expanding knowledge, which a period of improvement, are procuring for us?
Notes: Abundance.
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Highlight: Had he sacrificed a small portion of his revenue, he might have rendered many people happy, might have made for them and for himself a heaven upon earth.
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Highlight: The new, near hope of once more seeing that beloved and honored being awoke a thousand feelings in his heart.
Notes: The Experience
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Notes: So good to know you exist.
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Highlight: Whoever can administer what he possesses has enough; and to be wealthy is a burdensome affair, unless you understand it.”
Notes: You hire and manage the people. I sit in office and smoke cigars.
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Highlight: How far the influence of manliness and dignity extends!
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Highlight: Here,” said she, “beneath this German tree, will I disclose to you the history of a German maiden: listen to me patiently.
Notes: Rapt with awe and attention.
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Highlight: What you do not speak of, you will seldom accurately think of.
Notes: Synchronicity.
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Highlight: We talked, I may say, of every thing; yet in some degree our conversation always in the end grew economical, if even but in a secondary sense. What immense effects a man, by the continuous application of his powers, his time, his money, even by means which seem but small, may bring about, was frequently and largely spoken of.
Notes: Business time.
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Highlight: I, for my share, cannot understand,” continued she, “how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and histories. The man to whom the universe does not reveal directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others, that man will scarcely learn it out of books, which generally do little more than give our errors names.”
Notes: book learning
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Highlight: I thought I saw a tint of redness on her neck and on the ear, which were uncovered.
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Highlight: order in prosperity, courage in adversity, care for the smallest, and a spirit capable of comprehending and managing the greatest.
Notes: Life
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Highlight: the artist ought not to demand an unconditional approval of his work. Unconditional approval is always the least valuable:
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Highlight: Tell me, girl, how hast thou got such power over me? I would not have believed that a goddess herself could make a sighing lover of me.
Notes: Venus
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Highlight: it is the manner of all persons who attach importance to their inward cultivation altogether to neglect their outward circumstances.
Notes: Get a haircut. U look like a clown.
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Highlight: but the error which has clung to me through my whole life, — that I sought for cultivation where it was not to be found; that I fancied I could form a talent in me, while without the smallest gift for it?”
Notes: No gift for it.
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Notes: You are excellent.
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Highlight: The instruction which the true artist gives us opens the mind; for, where words fail him, deeds speak.
Notes: action louder than words.
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Highlight: Imitation is born with us: what should be imitated is not easy to discover.
Notes: What to imitate?
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Highlight: Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the highest matter.
Notes: Perfect love.
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Highlight: with such a figure thou shalt buy some rich and beautiful heiress.
Notes: Hello ladies.
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Highlight: More than one obliging friend assured me thou wert living with a wild young nobleman, wert supplying him with actresses, helping him to waste his money;
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Highlight: Are not the actors and actresses in a play set up on boards before them; lamps are lit on every side; the whole transaction is comprised within three hours; yet scarcely one of them knows rightly what to make of it.”
Notes: What the hell kind of show is this?
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Highlight: The women in our house,” said he, “are satisfied and happy; we are never short of money.
Notes: Blessings abound.
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Highlight: it appeared with certainty enough that, in very many actions of his life, in which he had conceived himself to be proceeding freely and in secret, he had been observed, nay guided; and perhaps the thought of this had given him an unpleasant feeling;
Notes: Guided by unseen forces.
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Highlight: The winning or the losing must soon be decided.
Notes: We can’t lose.
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Highlight: How much happier were men and women in our rank of life, if they might with unforbidden eyes look round them, and elevate by their selection, here a worthy maiden, there a worthy youth, regarding nothing farther than their own ideas of happiness
Notes: You are the sun.
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Highlight: Shall I not fail, and sink to the earth, at sight of her?
Notes: Be cool.
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Notes: Indeed.
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Notes: I found Venus.
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Highlight: he was altogether occupied convincing himself that it was she, closely examining her features, shaded by the screen, and accurately recognizing them.
Notes: first meeting.
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Highlight: One curious change,” Natalia added, “You will find in her: she now wears women’s clothes,
Notes: Mignon has blossomed.
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Highlight: I had her suitably equipt in a long light snow white dress. She was, of course, provided with a golden girdle round her waist, and a golden fillet on her hair.
Notes: She is an angel. Of course.
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Notes: Ask Circe. German Santa Clause – https://germanculture.com.ua/german-traditions/knecht-ruprecht/
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Highlight: And those calm shining sons of morn They ask not who is maid or boy; No robes, no garments there are worn, Our body pure from sin’s alloy. Through little life not much I toil’d, Yet anguish long this heart has wrung, Untimely woe my blossom spoil’d; Make me again forever young!
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Highlight: It is no house, it is a temple, and you are the priestess, nay the Genius of it:
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Notes: Hello 33.3
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Highlight: It is our ambiguous dissipating education that makes men uncertain: it awakens wishes, when it should be animating tendencies; instead of forwarding our real capacities, it turns our efforts towards objects which are frequently discordant with the mind that aims at them.
Notes: Dissipating education.
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Highlight: I augur better of a child, a youth who is wandering astray on a path of his own, than of many who are walking aright upon paths which are not theirs.
Notes: Make your own way.
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Highlight: and the desire for you, my friend, are, I might almost say, the only earthly things about her.
Notes: She loves me!
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Highlight: “I am yours, as I am and as you know me. I call you mine, as you are and as I know you.
Notes: Precious love note.
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Highlight: When we take people,’ thou wouldst say, ‘merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.
Notes: I love you.
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Notes: Wtf is really going on?
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Highlight: Nay, I may truly say, through him alone I have experienced that the heart can be affected and exalted; that in the world there may be joy, love and an emotion which contents the soul beyond its utmost want.
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Highlight: It is not my fault,’ said he, ‘if I have not brought my inclinations and my reason into perfect harmony.
Notes: I don’t know what I’m doing. Or why I’m doing it.
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Highlight: The dear little creature could not be recalled to life.
Notes: they killed Mignon. This god damed book.
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Highlight: he had himself been joined to an association, which appears to have accomplished many things in secret.
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Highlight: we should guard against a talent which we cannot hope to practise in perfection. Improve it as we may, we shall always in the end, when the merit of the master has become apparent to us, painfully lament the loss of time and strength devoted to such botching.
Notes: Wasted time.
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Notes: Never!
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Highlight: “I confess, it was a while before I could get rid of the impression, which her looks and manner made on me; but that was all.
Notes: I can’t rid myself of your impression.
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Highlight: when a German gives, you may be sure he loves.
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Gottfried’s Chronicle, two volumes of the Theatrum Europœum, an Acerra Philologica,
Gryphius’ Writings,
Notes: Look for secret society spells here.
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Highlight: At last, Philina hit upon the royal plan of laying all the tomes, opened at once, upon a large table: we sat down opposite to one another: we read to one another; always in detached passages, first from this book, then from that. Here was a proper pleasure!
Notes: Romance.
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Highlight: As matters go, it is anything but prudent to have property in only one place, to commit your money to a single spot; and it is difficult again to guide it well in many.
Notes: Get second spot.
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Highlight: The love of which another is the object, charms me almost more than that which is directed to myself. I see the strength, the force of a tender soul, and my self-love does not trouble the delightful vision.
Notes: Strength.
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Notes: You are the spark.
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Notes: Golden wedge of Ophir.
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Highlight: which could not fail in some degree to lead him to a sort of painful martyrdom.
Notes: The artist.
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Notes: Funeral rights.
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Notes: See you on the altar.
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Notes: Meeting the Countess.
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Highlight: he never could attain to enjoyment, for nothing ever was completed as he had forecast it.
Notes: Life makes the man. you cannot control everything w your powers.
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Highlight: Sperata, our fair neighbour.
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Notes: His lover is his sister.
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Notes: Uh oh. It’s too late.
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Highlight: Were there not noble nations which admitted marriage with a sister? Name not your gods! You never name them but when you wish to befool us, to lead us from the paths of nature, and, by scandalous constraint, to transform the noblest inclinations into crimes.
Notes: Its a crime to marry sister?
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Highlight: Look at the lilies: do not husband and wife shoot forth on the same stalk. Does not the flower, which bore them, hold them both? And is not the lily the type of innocence; is not their sisterly union fruitful?
Notes: Sisterly union.
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Notes: Right to sister.
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Notes: Sister doesn’t know her boyfriend is her brother!
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Notes: USA media
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Highlight: has not God promised ever to renew his miracles among a people that believe?
Notes: Every day is a miracle.
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Highlight: What I purposed to hold fast, I must let go; and benefits which I have not deserved, descend upon me of their own accord.”
Notes: Let go. I can’t control this.
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Highlight: you do me too much honour when you take me for an Englishman,
Notes: Limey brits.