LiteraryVienna
@LiteraryVienna
#Literatur aus und über #Wien und andere Geschichten. | #Literature from and about #Vienna and other stories....📚
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan
„I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.“ Malcolm Lowry * July 28, 1909
George Steiner
'As long as ten people know a poem, it will live.' George Steiner
„The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.“ Elizabeth Hardwick * July 27, 1916
Aldous Huxley
‘But I don’t want comfort. (…) I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.’ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932 Stanley Kubrick, Walking the Streets of New York, 1946
„We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...“ Edna O'Brien
Gertrude Stein
Good night and good luck! „One must dare to be happy.“ Gertrude Stein Portrait by Pablo Picasso, 1905
Joseph Conrad
The islands are very quiet. One sees them lying about, clothed in their dark garments of leaves, in a great hush of silver and azure, where the sea without murmurs meets the sky in a ring of magic stillness. A sort of smiling somnolence broods over them. — Joseph Conrad Imray
„Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.“ Katherine Mansfield
„Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.“ Gertrude Stein
"Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means." Colum McCann, Apeirogon
Elias Canetti
»Es gibt keine größere Illusion als die Meinung, Sprache sei ein Mittel der Kommunikation zwischen Menschen.« Elias Canetti 25. Juli 1905 - 14. August 1994
Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation | Fiction in translation | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…
Umberto Eco
"I went everywhere looking for peace, but in the end I found it only in the corner of the room with a book." Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose" ☕️📚🌷 Good morning
Patricia Highsmith
"My greatest discovery so far: The world is a tragedy to those who feel, a comedy to those who think. Most people neither think nor feel." Patricia Highsmith Journal, May 1942
“Trinkt, o Augen, was die Wimper hält, von dem goldnen Überfluss der Welt!” Gottfried Keller * 19. Juli 1819
“Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.” ~ Iris Murdoch thanks to @LiteraryVienna
Translations
Some people seem a little naïve or disparaging about translated literature. I’m lucky to know a few languages but one cannot know them all so the magical, invisible art of the translator is invaluable. And whatever we lose in translation we lose far more by not reading at all.
The Essential Jane Austen nytimes.com/article/jane-a… via @NYTimes
