Frank Wedekind famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Monument
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Art #Knowing #Creative
Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Joy #Sin
I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Baby #Smart #Different
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Drunk #Devil #Fool
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Men #Favour #Made
The laws of this world are for children.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Children #Law #World
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Looks #Suits #Virtue
I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Born #Asks
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
-- Frank Wedekind

#Kitsch #Gothic #Form

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