Ingeborg Bachmann Quotes

• I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Writing, Fire, Hands

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• If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Needs, Weapons, Language

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• I don't take drugs, I take books.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Book, Reading, Drug

  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.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  People, Imagine, Resignation

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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.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Needs, World, Vantage Point

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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.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Rip, Night, Snow

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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 Bachmann

  Gold, Lenses, Noses

  Ingeborg Bachmann (1989). “Three Paths to the Lake: Stories”, Holmes & Meier Pub

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