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The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Age: 55 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 1
Died: 1929
Died: July 15
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Vienna
Austria
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal
Impulses
Reign
Impulse
Dangerous
Creative
Dissolve

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