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#Literatur aus und über #Wien und andere Geschichten. | #Literature from and about #Vienna and other stories....📚
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„Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.“
Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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„It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.“
Rainer Maria Rilke
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“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
Louise Glück
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
Henry David Thoreau
* July 12, 1817
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„The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.“
Milan Kundera 🖤
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“Home is not where you were born. Home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
Naguib Mahfouz
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov
* January 29, 1860
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
Fernando Pessoa
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Anne Sexton
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„That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.“
Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
* July 26, 1894
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
Jack Kerouac
* March 12, 1922
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„In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.“
Albert Camus
* November 7, 1913
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
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„The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.“
Dante Alighieri
* September 14, 1321
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“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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"How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?"
Leonard Cohen
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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„All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

Jorge Luis Borges
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R.I.P.
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"Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead."
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe
* January 19, 1809
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„Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?“
Sigmund Freud
* 6 May, 1856
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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
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„I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.“
Wislawa Szymborska
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„You cannot find peace by avoiding life.“
Virginia Woolf
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841
„I am a cage, in search of a bird.“
Franz Kafka
* July 3, 1883
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847
„The thing with October is,
I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.“
Anne Sexton
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“Hope is not a form of guarantee; it’s a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.”
John Berger
* November 5, 1926
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“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
William James
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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
Samuel Beckett
* April 13, 1906
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„Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”
Samuel Beckett
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„Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.“
Carl Gustav Jung
* July 26, 1875
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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
Bertrand Russell
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790
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Sigmund Freud
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“For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.“
Amanda Gorman
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„I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.“
Bertrand Russell
* May 18, 1872
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
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„We have art so that we shall not die of reality.“
Friedrich Nietzsche
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„This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can… reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.'”
Leonard Cohen
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„My past is everything I failed to be.“
Fernando Pessoa
* June 13, 1888
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„Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.“
Franz Kafka
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„The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.“
Virginia Woolf
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“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”
Leonard Cohen
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil
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„The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
Samuel Beckett
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“All the months are crude experiments,
out of which the perfect September is made.”
Virginia Woolf
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"Es wird immer gleich ein wenig anders, wenn man es ausspricht."
Hermann Hesse
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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
Arthur Rimbaud
* 20 octobre 1854
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife,things in themselves, myself being myself.
Virginia Woolf
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„Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.“
Yasunari Kawabata
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“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* March 6, 1806
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„It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.“
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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„I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.“
Jorge Luis Borges
#WorldBookDay
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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
June 25, 1903
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„I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.“
Jorge Luis Borges
* August 24, 1899
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„The mind I love must have wild places.“
Katherine Mansfield
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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
Honoré de Balzac
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„Home is not where you were born. Home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
Naguib Mahfouz
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„Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.“
Sylvia Plath
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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
Arthur Rimbaud,
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614
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Doris Lessing
* October 22, 1919
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov
* January 29, 1860
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„That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.“
Doris Lessing
* October 22, 1919
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
* November 22, 1819
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599
„Every man's memory is his private literature.“
Aldous Huxley
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590
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
Bertrand Russell
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586
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway
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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
John Steinbeck
* February 27, 1902
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“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
Charles Bukowski
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James Baldwin
* August 2, 1924
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„We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.“
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov
#BOTD
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„A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.“
W.H. Auden
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561
„Ich denke nicht an all das Unglück, sondern an all die Schönheit, die noch übrig ist.“
Anne Frank
* 12. Juni 1929
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553
„Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of ignorance.“
Honoré de Balzac
7
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„Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.“
Aldous Huxley
8
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554
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
James Baldwin
3
224
557
„The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.“
Milan Kundera, Ignorance
7
161
557
„Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.“
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
* May 6, 1856
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150
553
„I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.“
Albert Camus, The Plague
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216
551
„To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.“
Henry Miller
9
186
545
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
W.H. Auden
10
118
549
“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
* February 2, 1882
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546
“We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.”
John Berger
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145
546
“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
Daphne du Maurier
* May 13, 1917
5
140
554
„How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
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5
114
549
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
Leonard Cohen
6
142
540
„You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive..“
James Baldwin
* Aug. 2, 1924
5
149
545
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive,...”
James Baldwin
* 8/2/1924
5
182
542
“When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.”
Leonard Cohen
8
119
531
„All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.“
John Steinbeck
3
208
536
„Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
Patti Smith
* December 30, 1946
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153
528
“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
Sigmund Freud
* May 6, 1856
4
138
533
„Ausgerechnet der Mensch ist unmenschlich.“
Thomas Bernhard
11
155
533
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Baldwin
6
164
525
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10
166
516
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John Locke
7
106
508
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
Bertrand Russell
2
178
515
„We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.“
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
* October 16, 1854
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119
507