"The past is not dead - it isn't…" — Christa Wolf
"The past is not dead - it isn't even past"
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11 Quotes by Christa Wolf
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Between killing and dying there's a third way: live
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You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic…
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Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross…
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Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the…
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A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it,…
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It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one…
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There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.
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Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign…
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I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out…
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I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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