Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
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What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
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Birth: | 1st November, 1886 |
Death: | 30th May, 1951 |
Nationality: | Austrian |
Profession: | Writer |
Hermann Broch was born in Vienna, Austria. He was an Austrian writer. He was predestined to work in his father’s textile factory in Teesdorf. In 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna. He wrote several novels include: The Sleepwalkers, The Death of Virgil, The Guiltless, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his time, and Lost Son. He wrote other books include: Geist and Zeitgeist, The Unknown Quantity, and Anarchist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.
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