Doors Quote by Gunter Grass

“...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us...”

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Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…

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I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its…

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Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

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“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside…

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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with…

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