Ingeborg Bachmann quotes
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“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
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“For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.”
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“I don't take drugs, I take books.”
-- Ingeborg BachmannSource : Ingeborg Bachmann (1990). “Malina: A Novel”, Holmes & Meier Pub
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“I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.”
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“Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts begin to tremble because lovelessness walks through the world, because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow, and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery, and the silver and gold, and a golden word come to you on which you choke because you have been sold and betrayed, and because it does not suffice that for you one is redeemed who once died.”
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“With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.”
-- Ingeborg BachmannSource : Ingeborg Bachmann (1989). “Three Paths to the Lake: Stories”, Holmes & Meier Pub
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“If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.”
-- Ingeborg Bachmann
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