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Quotation by Friedrich Höderlin:

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

Friedrich Höderlin     (more by this author)

1770-1843 (Age at death: 73 approx.)

Friedrich Höderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism

Country: Germany

Type: Prose
Context: Unknown

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40 year old, self-educated, self-employed (engineer), father of two who has always thought it important to think for himself. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I (more...)
 
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