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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself wit

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. – Hugo Ball

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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? – Hugo Ball

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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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