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Only Quotes by Herta Muller
- Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say…
- I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually…
- Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
- I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only…
- I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not…
- If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
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