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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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