"Everyday brought me further away from other people,……" — Herta Muller
"Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended."
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Herta Muller
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18 Quotes by Herta Muller
Herta Muller has 18 quotes on this site.
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Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and…
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In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an…
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My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be…
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Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
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Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more…
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Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
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I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words.…
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I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I…
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When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
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If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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