It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.Franz Grillparzer
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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