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You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.
Christian Morgenstern
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Christian Morgenstern
Age: 42 †
Born: 1871
Born: May 6
Died: 1914
Died: March 31
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Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern
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