Hugo Ball
German author and poet
Lived from: 1886 - 1927
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary)
Born: 22 february 1886 Died: 14 september 1927
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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
― Hugo Ball
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