Christa Wolf Quotes

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• Between killing and dying there's a third way: live
• You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction…
• Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.…
• Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in…
• A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
• It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is…
• There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.
• Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.
• I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.
• The past is not dead - it isn't even past
• I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.

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