"Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe."
"And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land."
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Source: 'Journeys and Places' (1937) 'Hölderlin's Journey'
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