Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
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Vienna
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."
Frederic Chopin
Composer
"Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths."
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"In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious."
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"In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave."
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