7 Quotes by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Wieder ist ein Jahr vergangen: allmählich wird mir dieser ewigwährende Zyklus ein wenig leid,wozu verschiedene Faktoren, deren Urheber ich in diesem Zusammenhang, um mich keinenUnannehmlichkeiten, deren Folgen, die in Kauf zu nehmen ich, der ich gerne Frieden halte,gezwungen wäre, nicht absehbar wären, auszusetzen, nicht nennen möchte, beitragen.

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.

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.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

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.

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.