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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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