One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can g… - Heinrich Böll

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One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Heinrich Böll

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Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was a German novelist, short-story writer and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.

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Alternative Names: Heinrich Boll • Heinrich Theodor Böll • Heinrich Theodor Boll

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Er meidet die überaus geschmackvollen offiziellen »Helden«friedhöfe. Warum nur, so denkt er, tun die Deutschen so viel für ihre Toten und so wenig für ihre Lebenden?

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He avoids the official "heroes'" cemetery, done in such impeccable taste. (Why, he wonders, do the Germans do so much for their dead and so little for the living?)

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