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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes: To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
         

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.


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