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Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

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Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.

Günter Grass

The Tin Drum

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Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum]. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion/Bioskop Film, 1959.

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Mann, Thomas. Lotte in Weimar [The Beloved Returns]. Stockholm: Gottfried Bermann Fischer, 1939, ch. 7.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 2.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part Two, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1785-1786, bk. 5, ch. 1.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Goethe: The Collected Works, edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1995, bk. 5, ch. 1.

Many a crown shines spotless now
That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Friedrich Schiller

The Death of Wallenstein

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Schiller, Friedrich. Wallenstein. 20 Apr. 1799, Weimarer Hoftheatre (now Deutsche Nationaltheatre Weimar), Weimar, Germany, act 2, sc. 2.

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Schiller, Friedrich. "Wallenstein's Death." The Robbers and Wallenstein, translated by F. J. Lamport. Penguin Classics, 1980, act 2, sc. 2.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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Klee, Paul. "Schöpferische Konfession [Creative Confession]." Tribüne der Kunst und der Zeit. Eine Schriftensammlung [Tribune of Art and Time. A Font Collection]. Berlin: Von Kasimir Edschmid, 1920.

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Klee, Paul. "Creative Confession." Creative Confession and Other Writings. Tate, 2014.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

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Schweitzer, Albert. Aus Meinem Leben und Denken [Out of My Life and Thought]. Leipzig: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1931, ch. 13.

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Schweitzer, Albert. Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, translated by Antji Bultmann Lemke. Johns Hopkins University, 2009, ch. 13.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Studiezimmer [Study Room]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Study Room." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Nietzsche, Frederick. Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert [Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Naumann, 1889.

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Nietzsche, Frederick. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, translated by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Wille zur Macht [The Will to Power]. Leipzig: C.G. Naumann, 1906.

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Nietzsche, Frederick. The Will to Power, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, edited by Walter Kaufmann. Vintage, 1968.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Clarchens Lied [Clara's Song]." Egmont. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1788, act 3, sc. 2.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Egmont: A Tragedy, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. F. Ungar Publishing Co., 1985, act 3, sc. 2.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Remark to Michael Kelly. c. 1786.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Quoted in Reminiscences of Michael Kelly of the King's Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, written by Michael Kelly. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to his father. 11 Oct. 1777.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. "Letter to his father in Salzburg. Munich, October 11, 1777." Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, translated and edited by Robert Spaethling. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.