Georg Büchner - Danton's Death (1835)

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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

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I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

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They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

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The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

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1st GENTLEMAN: You were afraid?! 2nd GENTLEMAN: Indeed I was. The crust of the earth is exceedingly thin: when I see such a hole I'm always afraid I might fall right through. We must tread very carefully, it could give way beneath us.

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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

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Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

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That's the only difference between men that I've been able to discover. Everyone acts according to his nature—in other words he does what does him good.

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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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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

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Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

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You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

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That damned argument: something cannot become nothing, there's the misery. Creation has become so broad, there's no emptiness. Everything is packed and swarming. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound.

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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

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We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

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Some part of me, I don't know which, contradicts the rest.

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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

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Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.

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The Revolution is like Saturn—it eats its own children.

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