Hugo von Hofmannsthal quotes
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“First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.”
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“Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.”
-- Hugo von HofmannsthalSource : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press
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“Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted”
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“Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.”
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“To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.”
-- Hugo von HofmannsthalSource : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press
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“Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.”
-- Hugo von HofmannsthalSource : Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”
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“The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.”
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“The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.”
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“We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.”
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“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.”
-- Hugo von HofmannsthalSource : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press
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“Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.”
-- Hugo von HofmannsthalSource : Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”
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“Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.”
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