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In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

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Do you suppose that Fortune always will
Crown disobedience with laurels, as lately?
I do not want a victory that is
The bastard child of chance. I want
The law upheld which is the mother of my crown
To bear me a whole family of victories.


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Grace appears most purely in that human form which either has no consciousness or an infinite consciousness. That is, in the puppet or in the god.

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We've had some very caustic writings
Unwilling to concede that God exists.
However, the devil, so far as I'm aware
No atheist has yet quite proved away.


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To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.

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Heinrich von Kleist

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Born: October 18, 1777
Died: November 21, 1811 (aged 34)
Bio: Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him, as was the Kleist Theater in his birthplace.
Known for:
  1. Penthesilea (1808)
  2. Michael Kohlhaas (1810)
  3. The Broken Jug
  4. The Prince of Homburg
  5. The Marquise of O (1808)

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