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"If I had formerly experienced the delights of surprise and astonishment, I enjoyed on this second occasion the pleasure of examining and scrutinizing. _How_ all this happened was my present concern. That the puppets themselves did not speak, I had already decided; that of themselves they did not move, I also onjectured; but, then, how came it all to be so pretty, and to look just as if they both spoke and moved of themselves? and where were the lights, and the people that managed the deception?"
"These enigmas perplexed me the more, as I wished to be at the same time among the enchanters and the enchanted, at the same time to have a secret hand in the play, and to enjoy, as a looker-on, the pleasure of illusion."
#Goethe #WilhemMeister #Vol1Book1ch4
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"If I had formerly experienced the delights of surprise and astonishment, I enjoyed on this second occasion the pleasure of examining and scrutinizing. _How_ all this happened was my present concern. That the puppets themselves did not speak, I had already decided; that of themselves they did not move, I also onjectured; but, then, how came it all to be so pretty, and to look just as if they both spoke and moved of themselves? and where were the lights, and the people that managed the deception?"
"These enigmas perplexed me the more, as I wished to be at the same time among the enchanters and the enchanted, at the same time to have a secret hand in the play, and to enjoy, as a looker-on, the pleasure of illusion."
#Goethe #WilhemMeister #Vol1Book1ch4
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"If I had formerly experienced the delights of surprise and astonishment, I enjoyed on this second occasion the pleasure of examining and scrutinizing. _How_ all this happened was my present concern. That the puppets themselves did not speak, I had already decided; that of themselves they did not move, I also onjectured; but, then, how came it all to be so pretty, and to look just as if they both spoke and moved of themselves? and where were the lights, and the people that managed the deception?"
"These enigmas perplexed me the more, as I wished to be at the same time among the enchanters and the enchanted, at the same time to have a secret hand in the play, and to enjoy, as a looker-on, the pleasure of illusion."
#Goethe #WilhemMeister #Vol1Book1ch4
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"If I had formerly experienced the delights of surprise and astonishment, I enjoyed on this second occasion the pleasure of examining and scrutinizing. _How_ all this happened was my present concern. That the puppets themselves did not speak, I had already decided; that of themselves they did not move, I also onjectured; but, then, how came it all to be so pretty, and to look just as if they both spoke and moved of themselves? and where were the lights, and the people that managed the deception?"
"These enigmas perplexed me the more, as I wished to be at the same time among the enchanters and the enchanted, at the same time to have a secret hand in the play, and to enjoy, as a looker-on, the pleasure of illusion."
#Goethe #WilhemMeister #Vol1Book1ch4
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"If I had formerly experienced the delights of surprise and astonishment, I enjoyed on this second occasion the pleasure of examining and scrutinizing. _How_ all this happened was my present concern. That the puppets themselves did not speak, I had already decided; that of themselves they did not move, I also onjectured; but, then, how came it all to be so pretty, and to look just as if they both spoke and moved of themselves? and where were the lights, and the people that managed the deception?"
"These enigmas perplexed me the more, as I wished to be at the same time among the enchanters and the enchanted, at the same time to have a secret hand in the play, and to enjoy, as a looker-on, the pleasure of illusion."
#Goethe #WilhemMeister #Vol1Book1ch4