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Rowlandson, The Chamber of Genius, 1812
Rowlandson, The Chamber of Genius, 1812
We all walk in mysteries. Wir wandeln Alle in Geheimnissen. Heim means home. The heimlisch is the familiar. Yet heimlich means secret, and unheimlich is uncanny. We carry all these meanings around in our walk through the mysteries.

A. N. Wilson, Goethe. His Faustian Life. 2024 page 19

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THE COURSE OF HUMAN LIFE: From the cradle to the grave   HUMAN SOCIETY  


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