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Jean Paul

  • Jean Paul

    Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.

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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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Jean Paul

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Tags: May, Old, Away
Jean Paul

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Tags: Day, Single, Lived
Jean Paul

Live your life and forget your age.

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Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Tags: Time, History, Living
Jean Paul

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Tags: Good, Left, Fades
Jean Paul

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Tags: Order, Depends, Shape
Jean Paul

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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Jean Paul

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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Jean Paul

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Tags: Time, Feeling, Once
Jean Paul

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