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Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 1991
Died: August 21
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Freie und Hansestadt
Everything
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