"The more words we are allowed to take,……" — Herta Muller
"The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion."
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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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