Hugo von Hofmannsthal Quotes
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Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
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Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
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Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
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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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We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.
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How we feel is how we want to be heard.
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Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
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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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Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
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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.
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Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.
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First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
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