Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes

• Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Imagination, Dimensions, Happens

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• In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Views, Political, Dying

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• How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Numbers, People, Positive Relationship

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• The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Men, Keys, He Man

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

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• The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Eight, Years, Lasts

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

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• When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Writing, Years, Parent

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Perfection

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