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> [“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors ask if he’s read all the books on his shelves. . . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/he-can-t-remember-but-he-still-knows-exactly-where-to-find-it-on-his/)

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## More by Jenny Erpenbeck

> [“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/he-can-t-remember-but-he-still-knows-exactly-where-to-find-it-on-his/)

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> [“This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/this-here-is-your-inheritance-says-the-senior-partner-yes-he-says/)

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> [“Have the people living here under untroubled circumstances and at so great a distance from the wars of others been afflicted with a poverty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/have-the-people-living-here-under-untroubled-circumstances-and-at-so/)

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> [“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/home-when-it-rains-you-can-smell-the-leaves-in-the-forest-and-the/)

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> [“Quante volte bisogna tornare a imparare, a scoprire e a riscoprire ciò che già si sa, quanti travestimenti bisogna strappar via per poter penetrare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/quante-volte-bisogna-tornare-a-imparare-a-scoprire-e-a-riscoprire-ci/)

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> [Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/nothing-is-nicer-than-diving-with-your-eyes-open-diving-down-as-far/)

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> [“Home! he'd cried out like a child that would give anything not to be seeing what it was seeing, but precisely in this one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/home-he-d-cried-out-like-a-child-that-would-give-anything-not-to-be/)

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> [“How many times, he wonders, must a person relearn everything he knows, rediscovering it over and over, and how many coverings must be torn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/how-many-times-he-wonders-must-a-person-relearn-everything-he-knows/)

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> [Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/everything-had-kept-getting-less-they-d-had-to-leave-behind-more-and/)

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> [“The Wall had turned their street into a cul-de-sac where children roller-skated. Then in 1990 the Wall was cleared away piece by piece, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/the-wall-had-turned-their-street-into-a-cul-de-sac-where-children/)

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> [Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/which-means-that-in-the-end-there-are-certain-things-you-can-take/)

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> [“...but with each step you take while fleeing, your baggage grows less and less, with more and more left behind, and sooner or later…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/but-with-each-step-you-take-while-fleeing-your-baggage-grows-less-and/)

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> [“... it would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/it-would-be-lovely-if-he-and-his-wife-would-succeed-in-dying-before/)

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> [“To investigate how one makes the transition from a full, readily comprehensible existence to the life of a refugee, which is open in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/to-investigate-how-one-makes-the-transition-from-a-full-readily/)

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