Widely attributed to Goethe without citation.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What It Means
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,