“Novels are the Socratic dialogs of our time. This free form has become the refuge of common sense in its flight from pedantry.”
Die Romane sind die sokratischen Dialoge unserer Zeit. In diese liberale Form hat sich die Lebensweisheit vor der Schulweisheit geflüchtet.
Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Critical Fragments,” § 26
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Die Romane sind die sokratischen Dialoge unserer Zeit. In diese liberale Form hat sich die Lebensweisheit vor der Schulweisheit geflüchtet.
Kritische Fragmente, Prosaischen Jugendschriften (1882), Band 2, S. 186, § 26
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