Nikolaus Lenau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
-- Nikolaus Lenau

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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
I don't look at myself as suffering.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

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