"Only the demented would not have raised their……" — Herta Muller
"Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity"."
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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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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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If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
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More Demented Quotes
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The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
— Bill Paxton
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the…
— Martin Luther
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The word 'barren' tells you everything you need to know. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know…
— Caitlin Moran
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From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
— Andrew Jackson
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I have been driven demented in my career.
— Lord Mountbatten
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a…
— J F C Fuller
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Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious…
— Vincent Price
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