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“One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (1809), Book II, Ch. 2

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

German poet and polymath, author of "Faust".

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