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“For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-östlicher Divan (1819), Book of Paradise

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

German poet and polymath, author of "Faust".

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