We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goe…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants, Riverrun Pr
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