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title: "1 Really Time Quotes By Christian Morgenstern"
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> [There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/there-are-often-some-hundred-times-a-thousand-times-before-you-can/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

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## More by Christian Morgenstern

> [The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/the-hidden-child-wants-to-be-able-to-participate-and-to-co-create-in/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/you-are-not-at-home-where-your-residence-are-but-where-you-are/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/if-i-did-not-love-what-is-present-if-i-could-not-cling-to-this/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/it-is-one-of-the-oddest-things-in-the-world-that-you-can-read-a-page/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/there-are-often-some-hundred-times-a-thousand-times-before-you-can/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [“That which must not, can not be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/that-which-must-not-can-not-be/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/to-me-the-term-middle-class-connotes-a-safe-comfortable-middle-of-the/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [Home is not where you live but where they understand you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/home-is-not-where-you-live-but-where-they-understand-you/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/often-i-am-struck-in-amazement-about-a-word-i-suddenly-realize-that/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/there-is-a-ghost-that-eats-hankerchiefs-it-keeps-you-company-on-all/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/a-true-artist-never-portrays-to-please-but-to-show/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/humor-is-the-contemplation-of-the-finite-from-the-point-of-view-of/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [In every work of art, the artist himself is present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/in-every-work-of-art-the-artist-himself-is-present/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/if-modern-civilization-man-had-to-kill-the-animals-he-eats-the-number/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

> [A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/a-poet-must-have-died-as-a-man-before-he-is-worth-anything-as-a-poet/)

[Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/)

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