Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
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Quotes
[edit]- Wo ist dein Selbst zu finden? Immer in der tiefsten Bezauberung, die du erlitten hast. ... Die ganze Seele ist nie beisammen, außer in der Entzückung.
- Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. The whole soul is never one, save in ecstasy.
- Buch der Freunde: Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen (1922), in Selected Prose, trans. Mary Hottinger and James Stern, intr. Hermann Broch (New York: Pantheon, 1952) p. 356
External links
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