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> [Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/believing-it-means-believing-in-our-own-lies-and-i-can-say-that-i-am/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

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## More by Gunter Grass

> [Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/melancholy-has-ceased-to-be-an-individual-phenomenon-an-exception-it/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/melancholy-and-utopia-are-heads-and-tails-of-the-same-coin/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/if-work-and-leisure-are-soon-to-be-subordinated-to-this-one-utopian/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/i-have-often-supported-israel-i-have-often-visited-the-country-and/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/whenever-there-has-been-talk-of-exterminating-rats-others-who-were/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/you-can-begin-a-story-in-the-middle-and-create-confusion-by-striking/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/there-must-be-reasons-why-we-men-are-so-hipped-on-breasts-as-if-we-d/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/often-i-had-to-imagine-the-things-i-needed-i-learned-very-early-to/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Art is hard for a puritan to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/art-is-hard-for-a-puritan-to-understand/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/what-does-a-river-like-the-vistula-carry-away-with-it-everything-that/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/love-that-s-it-the-cashless-commerce-the-blanket-always-too-short-the/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/they-had-tried-doing-it-by-themselves-in-her-room-with-a-cheap-onion/)

[Günter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [ \[To be an artist,\] this desire to conquer all with images. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/to-be-an-artist-this-desire-to-conquer-all-with-images/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/after-the-collapse-of-socialism-capitalism-remained-without-a-rival/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [“Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/suppose-you-re-teaching-math-you-assume-that-parallel-lines-meet-at/)

[Günter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

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