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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832): Elective Affinities (Image by Wolf-Henry Dreblow from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »

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