“Morality without sense for paradox is vulgar.”

Moralität ohne Sinn für Paradoxie ist gemein.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 76

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Moralität ohne Sinn für Paradoxie ist gemein.

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