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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus
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Paracelsus
Age: 47 †
Born: 1493
Born: November 10
Died: 1541
Died: September 24
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