"You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company."

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MysticsAcademics from GermanyLutheransPainters from Germany
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Quote from: Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape; Joseph Koerner, p. 66; as cited in the article 'Caspar David Friedrich's Medieval Burials', Karl Whittington -