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• Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology…
• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
• Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
• The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
• We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the…
• Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it…
• This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores…
• I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My…
• I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible…
• At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown…
• Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
• For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or…

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