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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.

Heinrich von Kleist

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.

Heinrich von Kleist

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.

Heinrich von Kleist

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.

Heinrich von Kleist

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

Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich von Kleist

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:

Penthesilea (1808)
Michael Kohlhaas (1810)
The Broken Jug
The Prince of Homburg
The Marquise of O (1808)

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