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Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.

— Berthold Auerbach Auf der Höhe · On the Heights (1865)

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Source: Bk. 7 (Simon Adler Stern, trans.)
Work: Auf der Höhe · On the Heights, 1865
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