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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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