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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.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Was du teurer bezahlst, die Lüge oder die Wahrheit?
Jene kostet dein Ich, diese doch höchstens dein Glück.

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"Epigrams" in Sämtliche Werke, volume 6, page 365

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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,
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