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I have by no means an aversion to things Indian, but I am afraid of them, for they draw my imagination into the formless and the diffuse against whic… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
" "I have by no means an aversion to things Indian, but I am afraid of them, for they draw my imagination into the formless and the diffuse against which I have to guard myself more than ever before.
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar.
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