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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
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It's all a mystery, so much is mysterious.
And we are here to endure it.
And in the How, there lies the whole difference—
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We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.
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Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
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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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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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His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Born:
February 1, 1874
Died:
July 15, 1929
(aged 55)
Bio:
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
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