“Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.”

—  Joseph Goebbels

Die Heuchelei ist das charakteristische Merkmal der untergehenden bürgerlichen Epoche.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

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