“More light!”

—  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last words, as quoted in The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 24 (1834), p. 501 [He apparently, here, asking for the shutters to be opened to admit more light, nothing more.]
Original: (de) Mehr Licht!

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