Ingeborg Bachmann famous quotes

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I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
-- Ingeborg Bachmann

#Writing #Fire #Hands
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
I don't take drugs, I take books.
-- Ingeborg Bachmann

#Book #Reading #Drug
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who canâ€™t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, thatâ€™s it.
-- Ingeborg Bachmann

#People #Imagine #Resignation
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
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
If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.
-- Ingeborg Bachmann

#Needs #Weapons #Language

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heavenâ€™s mouth.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Ingeborg Bachmann famous quotes

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