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歌德年轻时候立下的志向是成为一个画家。为此他付出了艰辛,努力提高自己的画技,却始终收效甚微。直到40岁的时候,他游历了意大利,亲眼见到那些大师的杰出作品之后,终于清醒了:即使自己穷尽毕生的精力也难以在画界有所建树。在痛苦和彷徨中,他毅然决定放弃绘画,改攻文学,最终成为伟大的诗人。回顾青年时候付出的努力,歌德感慨地说:“要发现自己多不容易,我差不多花了半生的光阴。”的确,发现自己并不容易。这
Goethe’s ambition as a young man was to become an artist. To this end, he paid a hardship, and strive to improve their skills, but has been ineffective. When he was 40 years old, he traveled to Italy, and after seeing the outstanding works of those masters, he was finally awake: it was hard to make any contribution to the painting even though he had exhausted his life. In anguish and imitation, he resolutely decided to abandon the painting, to change the literature, eventually becoming a great poet. Going back to the hard work youth was doing, Goethe said with emotion: “It took almost half my life to find out how hard I was.” Indeed, finding yourself is not easy. This