Literature is a fragment of a fragment of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written, and of this but little is extant. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Literature is a fragment of a fragment of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written, and of this but little is extant.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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