Taken Quotes by Jenny Erpenbeck

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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 were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though…

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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 the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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