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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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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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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
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Category:Novelists from Austria
Category:Poets from Austria
Category:Playwrights from Austria
Category:Essayists from Austria
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Category:People from Vienna