"If you live with death threats, you need……" — Herta Muller
"If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you."
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18 Quotes by Herta Muller
Herta Muller has 18 quotes on this site.
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Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,
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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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Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in…
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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