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Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.
Max Muller
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Max Muller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 6
Died: 1900
Died: October 28
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Dessau-Rosslau
Friedrich Max Müller
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