“One becomes ever poorer, the richer he gets.”

— Georg Trakl

Man wird immer ärmer, je reicher man wird.
Letter to Erhard Buschbeck, July 1910

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Man wird immer ärmer, je reicher man wird.

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austrian poet 1887–1914

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