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• Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the…
• Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
• I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one…
• Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very…
• Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
• After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its…
• Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to…
• I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
• I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to…
• I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then…
• I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good.…
• It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

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