Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Quotes

#1. 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.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#2. Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#3. The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#4. To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.

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#5. We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

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#6. Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

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#7. First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

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#8. Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

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#9. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

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#10. The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

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#11. Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

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#12. Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

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#13. 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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#14. The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

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#15. To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

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#16. Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

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#17. How we feel is how we want to be heard.

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