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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Maxims of Goethe 22


Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe. 

IMAGE: Joseph E. Baker, The Witch (1892) 



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