Peter Altenberg Quotes

• For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

  Peter Altenberg

  Love Is, Men, World

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• Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

  Peter Altenberg

  Art, Life Is, Art Is

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• It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

  Peter Altenberg

  Exception

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• There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

  Peter Altenberg

  Ambition, Men, Two

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• I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.

  Peter Altenberg

  Truth, Heart, Mirrors

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• God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

  Peter Altenberg

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

  Peter Altenberg

  Dream, Thinking, Humanity

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