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Vienna
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In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.
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― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
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Vienna is certainly the grandest city I have ever seen. All along the Ringstrasse colossal buildings proclaim an imperial past – the parliament, the Palace of Justice, the Natural History Museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the opera house, the Burgtheater and above all the Hofburg, with its 2,600 rooms. They all look much the same – mighty piles of granite and sandstone with warlike statuary crowded along the roofs and pediments. A Martian coming to earth would unhesitatingly land at Vienna,
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― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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