What has always made the state a hell on earth has been pre… - Friedrich Hölderlin

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

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 6 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools.

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Native Name: Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin

Alternative Names: Frederich Holderlin

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¿Qué son los siglos, comparados a ese instante en que dos seres se adivinan y se acercan?

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

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

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