I have no idea what the other will be like, but this death … - Gottfried von Strassburg

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I have no idea what the other will be like, but this death suits me well! If my adorable Isolde were to go on being the death of me in this fashion I would woo death everlasting!

Gottfried von Strassburg

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Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) was a German poet known mainly for his unfinished Tristan, a romance based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain. Gottfried's poem was the main literary source of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

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Hazzen unde nîden
daz muoz der biderbe lîden.
der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.

What a wretched sort of deception, when a man so lies to his friends that he dupes himself.

Ez ist ein armer trügesite,
der vriunden alsô liuget,
daz er sich selben triuget.

I have no idea what the other will be like, but this death suits me well! If my adorable Isolde were to go on being the death of me in this fashion I… - Gottfried von Strassburg

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