Those who yield their souls captive to the brief intoxication of love, if no higher and holier feeling mingle with and consecrate their dream of bliss, will shrink trembling from the pangs that attend their waking.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel
Topics: Love
Literature is the immortality of speech.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel
Topics: Speech, Books, One liners, Immortality, Literature
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel
There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than admiration of the beautiful.—All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste, without respect to the object.—They purify the thoughts, as tragedy purifies the passions.—Their accidental effects are not worth consideration; for there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy.
—August Wilhelm Schlegel
Topics: Beauty, Art
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