Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest sel…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest. ✨ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1985). Faust/Bilingual, Bantam Classics
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