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Quotes by Georg Büchner

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Your words smell of corpses.
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The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one’s own nature.
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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body.
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
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A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.
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The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
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