Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes
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Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.
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The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
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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.
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In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.
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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.
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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.
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How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?