“The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.”

— Georg Büchner , Leonce and Lena

Act II.
Leonce and Lena (1838)

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German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813–1837

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