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Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (German: [ˈhuːɡo ˈlaʊʁenʦ ˈaʊɡʊst ˈhoːfman fɔn ˈhoːfmanstaːl]; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

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

Fewer, Imagine, Know, Knows

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

Littles, Spots, Knows, Spot, Context, Everything

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.

Reality, Europe, Revolution, German, Speaking, Whole

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

Body, Learn, Life, Spirit, Wisdom, Wise

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

Wise, Wisdom, Want, Heard

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

Maturity, Separation, Mature, Distinctly, Connect

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

Life, Reality, Political, Present, Becomes, Nation

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Language, Exhausted, Alone, Performed, Words

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

Deepest, Enchantment, Found, Self

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Lying, Reality, Enchantment, Lies, Greatest

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

Music, Voice, Singing, Instrument, Human

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

Act, Creative, Dangerous, Reign

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Depth, Surface, Hidden

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