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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 of experience, a sort of emotional anemia? Must living in peace - so fervently wished for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-erpenbeck/have-the-people-living-here-under-untroubled-circumstances-and-at-so/)

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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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