Christian Morgenstern Quotes
Christian Morgenstern offers gentle, reflective thoughts that explore feeling and purpose.
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Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.
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Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
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Life is Nothingness's search for Something.
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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
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You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.
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If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
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It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
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There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
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To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.
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Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
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There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.
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A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.
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Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
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In every work of art, the artist himself is present.
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If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.