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Jean Paul (1763 – 1825)


Influential German novelist and short-story writer.
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Jean Paul
When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.
Paul quotes
The virtues, like the body,become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
Paul
No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.




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