Our favorite quotes, from Vienna and other places.
Charles Dickens
Und das heißt fest und klar und heiter sein, ja heiter, trotz alledem."
Rosa Luxemburg
Am 15. Januar 1919 wurden sie und Karl Liebknecht von Freikorpssoldaten in Berlin ermordet.
Und das heißt fest und klar und heiter sein, ja heiter, trotz alledem."
Rosa Luxemburg
Am 15. Januar 1919 wurden sie und Karl Liebknecht von Freikorpssoldaten in Berlin ermordet.
Be a good glad thing, why should we make us merry
Because a year of it is gone? but Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Be a good glad thing, why should we make us merry
Because a year of it is gone? but Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Stefan Zweig
* 28. November 1881
Stefan Zweig
* 28. November 1881
Erich Fried
Erich Fried
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Selma Lagerlöf
* November 20, 1858
Selma Lagerlöf
* November 20, 1858
Oscar Wilde
* October 16, 1854
Oscar Wilde
* October 16, 1854
Hannah Arendt,
* 14. Oktober 1906
Hannah Arendt,
* 14. Oktober 1906
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genesegrill.substack.com/p/man-withou...
Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald
Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
that reach out across the world.
...
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
~Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Joanna Macy)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.“
Anne Sexton
I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.“
Anne Sexton
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald