“Only mankind
Can do the impossible:
He can distinguish,
He chooses and judges,
He can give permanence
To the moment.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Das Göttliche

Das Göttliche (The Divine) (1783)

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German writer, artist, and politician 1749–1832

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