Best 9 quotes of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal on MyQuotes

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

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

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

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.

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

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

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

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