Peter Altenberg quotes
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“For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.”
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“Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.”
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“I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.”
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“It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.”
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“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.”
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“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.”
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“God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.”
-- Peter Altenberg
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.”
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Source : Corrie ten Boom (2008). “I Stand at the Door and Knock: Meditations by the Author of The Hiding Place”, p.63, Zondervan
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