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l guess so.
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His poems are...
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very, very beautiful.
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Yes.
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He's the greatest German poet.
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You think so?
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Maybe you're right.
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But didn't he cause....
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Didn't Stefan George cause
a lot of hullabaloo?
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No!
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No!
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That wasn't a hullabaloo!
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l'm sorry, but....
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Doesn't matter.
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How could you know?
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But what you call ''hullabaloo''
is really something very serious...
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something very true.
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Stefan George wanted his poems
to be presented in a certain ambiance...
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not torn from their proper context.
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His language...
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is the most limpid German ever written...
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comparable only with that of Nietzsche.
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Pure, true art.
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An art that needs the right setting.
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lt's not something one can feel
in a tram or in the bathroom.
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ln the bathroom?
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Yes.
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lt requires an inner receptiveness in people.
:42:18
One must be in a state of empathy with it.
:42:21
One has to glow for this language.
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And few people can
open their hearts to something great.
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That's why George cultivated
a certain circle of people...
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and read his poems only in this circle.
:42:34
He didn't want their purity sullied.
:42:39
How you enthuse!
:42:41
How beautiful you are
when you enthuse about something.
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Do you think l'm like him?
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You have the strength to be what you want.
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Yes.
:42:51
l have the strength to be Stefan George.
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Luise! Luise!
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This is Aunt Andrée, Ernst.
Say hello and shake hands!