If I had not come to America, where I felt free to formulate tentatively insights at which I had empathically arrived, I would hav...e accomplished very little. I would never have begun to publish, to teach, to undertake research. Because if one does not find an assenting echo to one's ideas, if one is passed over, as I was in Vienna, then one cannot create. To create, after all, is to believe that what one says will count.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grusinskaya: I want to be alone. Meierheim: Where have you been? I suppose I can cancel the Vienna contract.... Grusinskaya: I just want to be alone. Meierheim: You're going to be very much alone, my dear madam. This is the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air... Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London UnrealLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vien...na M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine is ... their ugliness ... their p...ink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuum ... their fake health, their fake youthfulness ... the way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surro...unded by a Chinese wall!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh no, I'm not a bellyacher. My hatred of Vienna is not love gone astray. It's just that I've discovered a completely new way of f...inding it unbearable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »