4 Quotes by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

  • Author Alexander Lernet-Holenia
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    Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is much more the enchantment of the soul, for there is nothing physical that is not made with the intent of affecting the soul, and there is no soul that does not intend to dazzle everything physical with its sensations.

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    Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world.

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    Quando si ama veramente qualcuno, disse lei, avesse anche perduto gli occhi, si riuscirebbe comunque a vederlo, e avesse anche perduto le braccia, si riuscirebbe comunque ad abbracciarlo.

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    Il cielo sopra la sua vettura era disseminato di un'enorme quantità di stelle, sembrava addirittura una polvere d'oro - l'oro che i conquistadores inviavano ai loro sovrani via mare - rovesciata da sacchetti di cuoio su un nero velluto spagnolo.

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