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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... but he does not come up again. Only he hears him who digs deep himself.
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Karl Kraus, in Spruche und Widerspruche (1924), p. 193; as quoted in Lichtenberg : A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions (1959) by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 114
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Lichtenberg goes deeper than any other, but he does not come up again. He speaks under the Earth. He is only heard by those who themselves dig deep.
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As quoted in The Last Days of Mankind : Karl Kraus and his Vienna (1967) by Frank Field, p. 196

 
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