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Café Sport is another scene. A scene, because that is where the artists and intellectuals go to be seen. Taking part is what matters, not winning. It is like sport, which is where the café got its…
Contributor:
Elfriede Jelinek
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1980
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But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…
Contributor:
Karl Kraus
Places:
German Empire (Germany, Germany)
Date:
1910
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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,
Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;
To regard as good the former,
Which reveal the soul so as to abandon…
Contributor:
Arnold Schoenberg
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…
Contributor:
Martin Buber
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1901