Bk. VII, Ch. 5
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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence — this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Quotes, Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830))
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