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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany

Note 11 — VI YOUNG GERMANY (continued 8)

Mary Morison translation

You ask me why he lies sleepless? why in his rage he tears the lace from his pillow? A good conscience sleeps well everywhere, a bad conscience nowhere. He has sucked the blood of his country, gorged himself with its substance; during a whole long life he has stolen and lied and deceived.

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