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Peter Altenberg was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He was key to the genesis of early modernism in the city. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. March 1859 – 8. January 1919
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Peter Altenberg Quotes

“God thinks in the geniuses, dreams in the poets, and sleeps in the other people.”

Peter Altenberg

Gott denkt in den Genies, träumt in den Dichtern und schläft in den übrigen Menschen.
Der Nachlass von Peter Altenberg, p. 20

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