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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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