“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states,… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation, measured geometric… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end of a… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“A călători nu pentru a ajunge, ci pentru a călători, pentru a ajunge cât mai târziu posibil, pentru a nu ajunge, dacă se poate,… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.” — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
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