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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
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Literary
Frankfurt/Main
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Dance
Whirl
Arms
Clasp
Leave
Powerless
Takes
Surrounded
Fall
Weary
Nature
Locked
Come
Closer
Unasked
Till
Hurries

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