"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.“
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"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."
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