Quote #253
@A: Marx, Karl
@Q: Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and
personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the
first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
@R: _The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon_ (1852), pt. 1, tr. Saul K. Pado
ver.
@A: Marx, Karl
@Q: Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and
personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the
first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
@R: _The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon_ (1852), pt. 1, tr. Saul K. Pado
ver.
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