“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
“One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.”
Sie muss also zu weit gehen, um herauszufinden, wie weit sie gehen darf. <br class="br">"Die Freiheit der Kunst", speech delivered at Wuppertal on September 24, 1966; cited from Cultura 21 magazine http://www.cultura21.de/magazin/denkanstosse/d20050930a.html, September 30, 2005. Translation: Walter Laqueur Germany Today: A Personal Report (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985) p. 130.
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