Quotes by Ingeborg Bachmann

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Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.
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The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Ingeborg Bachmann

Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

Ingeborg Bachmann

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

Ingeborg Bachmann

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

But Beatrix knew very well that there were no jobs, not even the most pitiful office routine - she wasn't even qualified for that - and that no one would allow her to sleep until late in the afternoon because these ill-advised people all around her l...

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The woman was finally done, and Beatrix reached for a magazine. There were always German magazines lying around here, was extremely rare; who wanted to read German magazines, anyway? Twin Murders in Stuttgart. Certainly an awful place, it even sounde...

Ingeborg Bachmann

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

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As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to make the best of it in there and would soon rage and would have to speak this thieves' cant, the ...

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The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and when they are completely at a loss they invent a language that maddens them. My fish. My hook. My fox. My snare. My fire. You ...

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No new world without a new language.

Ingeborg Bachmann

Author Bio

  • NameIngeborg Bachmann
  • DescriptionAustrian poet and author
  • BornJune 25, 1926
  • DiedOctober 17, 1973
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Journalist; Screenwriter; Philosopher; Essayist; Playwright
  • Works; Malina
  • AwardsAnton Wildgans Prize; ; Georg Büchner Prize