Claudio Magris famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
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True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
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It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
-- Claudio Magris
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Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.
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In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
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Politics is more difficult than physics.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.
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German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
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