"Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. — “Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #98