Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dou…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.

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