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Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes:

Wolfgang Hildesheimer quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: December 9, 1916 - August 21, 1991

Birthday: December 9

Death: August 21

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The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

source: - Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

Topics: Eight, Years, Lasts

quote everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you ve imagined it to wolfgang hildesheimer Quotes

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

Topics: Writing, Years, Parent, Five Year Olds

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Topics: Men, Animal, Perfection, Intervention

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Topics: Imagination, Dimensions, Happens

In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

Topics: Views, Political, Dying

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

Topics: Numbers, People, Positive Relationship

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

source: - Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

Topics: Men, Keys, He Man

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