I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into m… - Brother Theodore

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I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me. And neither of us liked what we saw.

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Theodore Isidore Gottlieb (November 11, 1906 – April 5, 2001), known as Brother Theodore, was a German-born American actor and comedian known for rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologues which he called "stand-up tragedy". He was a man described as "Boris Karloff, surrealist Salvador Dalí, Nijinsky and Red Skelton…simultaneously". At age 32, under Nazi rule, he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for one Reichsmark.

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Alternative Names: Theodore Gottlieb • Theodore Isidore Gottlieb

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I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me. And neither of us liked what we saw. - Brother Theodore

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