Gottfried Benn - Pessimism.
Man is not solitary, but thinking is solitary. Man is certainly cloaked in sadness, but many take part in this sadness and amongst all it is popular. Thinking, however, is egocentric and solitary. Perhaps the primitives thought collectively, the Indians, the Melansians, most markedly the Negroes, some things could be interpreted here as an enhancemen…
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