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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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