Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Shoes
• Dancing
• My Heart

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  

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  • Dancing
  • My Heart