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Friedrich Holderlin Quotes: What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
         

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.


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In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.



I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.



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