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Christian Friedrich Hebbel Quotes

1813–1863 Germany

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist.

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Which do you pay dearer for, lies or the truth?
The former costs you yourself, the latter at most your happiness.

Tall as they grow, the flowers
Are pale here, as if dead.
Just one right in the middle
Stands there so dark and red.
Its hue is not from the daylight,
No sun has burned this bud,
Its red is from the earth bed,
And that drank human blood!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christian Friedrich Hebbel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.