August Germany

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“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real “horror vacui.””
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

“The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.”
—Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)