And I don’t believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens... takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it “a day will come.” And one day it will come. Well, probably it won’t come, since they’ve always destroyed it for us…. It won’t come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can’t believe in it anymore then I can’t write anymore either.

Ingeborg Bachmann (June 1973)