Claudio Magris quotes

“History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.”
-- Claudio Magris

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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“True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.”
-- Claudio Magris

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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“It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.”
-- Claudio Magris

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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“Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.”
-- Claudio Magris

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”

“Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.”

“Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers”

“A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.”

“Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.”

“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”

“Politics is more difficult than physics.”

“Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.”

“Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.”

“German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.”