Frank Wedekind Quotes

• Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

  Frank Wedekind

  Monument

  Frank Wedekind (2013). “Spring Awakening”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

  Frank Wedekind

  Art, Knowing, Creative

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• The laws of this world are for children.

  Frank Wedekind

  Children, Law, World

  Frank Wedekind, Edward Bond (1979). “Spring awakening: a full length play”, Dramatic Pub Co

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• Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

  Frank Wedekind

  Joy, Sin

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• God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

  Frank Wedekind

  Men, Favour, Made

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• 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

  Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

  Frank Wedekind

  Looks, Suits, Virtue

  Frank Wedekind (2014). “Wedekind Plays: 1: Spring Awakening: A Children's Tragedy, Lulu: A Monster Tragedy”, p.55, A&C Black

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• I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

  Frank Wedekind

  Born, Asks

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• 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

  Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

  Frank Wedekind

  Kitsch, Gothic, Form

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