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Bewitched is half of everything.

Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), German Jewish poet and translator; relocated to Sweden. "Bewitched is half of everything," line 1, translated by Michael Hamburger, et al. (1967; first edition in German: 1957).

Sachs was cowinner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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