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In a letter to Karl August Varnhagen, Rahel Varnhagen, while describing herself, offers an advice to her husband: see, I love truth; am simple, strict, but soft; have no results beforehand in my eye and mind; and am always willing to grasp things innocently. Think therefore only of such a human being; and so, with your other talents and skills, in this large, literary, baked-together-with-lies world, there must be produced things that are worthwhile reading.' Karl August Varnhagen
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