The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and citi…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. ✨ 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'). Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.
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