Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1935). Conversations with Goethe

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Sadness

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