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Date: 1760-7
Ideas "follow and succeed one another in our minds at certain distances, just like the images in the inside of a lanthorn turned round by the heat of a candle."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"What is the whole world to our hearts without love? It is the optic machine of the Savoyards without light." [More literal translation: "Wilhelm, what would the world mean to our hearts without love! What is a magic lantern without its lamp!"]
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
