“ For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived. Ingeborg Bachmann
“ A single tear forms, just in the corner of one eye, but it doesn't roll down my cheek; it merely crystallizes in the cold air, it grows and grows into a second giant globe that doesn't want to orbit w… Ingeborg Bachmann
“ ...we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other's eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my ret… Ingeborg Bachmann
“ My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don't have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favo… 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… Ingeborg Bachmann
“ ...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep... Ingeborg Bachmann
“ 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 rag… Ingeborg Bachmann
“ Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace. Ingeborg Bachmann
“ You wouldn't believe it, but apart from a few drunks, a few sex murderers and other men who get into the papers where they are designated as criminals of passion, no normal man with normal drives has… Ingeborg Bachmann
“ The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it. Ingeborg Bachmann
“ 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.… 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
“ I'll worship animals in the night, I'll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I'll clutch at all lies, I'll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast. Ingeborg Bachmann
“ There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we wer… Ingeborg Bachmann
