"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.“


-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

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