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Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Polgar

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar 17 October 1873, Vienna – 24 April 1955, Zurich) was an Austrian-born columnist, theater critic, writer and occasionally translator. All in all, he was one of the most important protagonists of the Wiener Moderne.

Austrian - Journalist | October 17, 1873 - April 24, 1955

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The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign. — © Alfred Polgar

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Alfred Polgar

Alfred Polgar

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