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We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'
Paul Celan
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Paul Celan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 23
Died: 1970
Died: April 20
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Paul Antschel
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