Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography, Book XVIII, Truth and Beauty.

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Reading

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