One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.
Sie muss also zu weit gehen, um herauszufinden, wie weit sie gehen darf.
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"Die Freiheit der Kunst", speech delivered at Wuppertal on September 24, 1966; cited from Cultura 21 magazine , September 30, 2005. Translation: Walter Laqueur Germany Today: A Personal Report (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985) p. 130.