Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? …

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite. ✨ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1990). Sammlung, Burns & Oates
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