Quotes by Heinrich von Kleist

“But paradise is locked and bolted.... We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”

“the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded”

“Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back.”