What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven. As translated by Michael Hamburger. (Friedrich Hölderlin)

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

Friedrich Hölderlin

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