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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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