Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have by no means an aversion to things Indian, but I am afraid of them, for they draw my imagination into the formless

I have by no means an aversion to things Indian, but I am afraid of them, for th — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have by no means an aversion to things Indian, but I am afraid of them, for they draw my imagination into the formless and the diffuse against which I have to guard myself more than ever before.

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