History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — 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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