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When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Herta Müller
Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.
Herta Müller
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
Herta Müller
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
Herta Müller
Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.
Herta Müller
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
Herta Müller
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
Herta Müller
I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.
Herta Müller
The war was still on in January 1945. In their dismay at my being shipped off in the dead of winter to who knows where in Russia, everyone wanted to give me something that might be of use, even if it couldn't be help. Because nothing in the world could possible help.
Herta Müller
If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
Herta Müller
I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.
Herta Müller
How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry. If you can't think of anything else.
Herta Müller
Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.
Herta Müller
I don't know if I can't sleep because I am trying to recall the objects, or whether I struggle to recall them because I can't sleep.
Herta Müller
There's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.
Herta Müller
No novels, since you just read them once and never again.
Herta Müller
The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.
Herta Müller
The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are.
Herta Müller
You go out for a walk and the world opens up for you. And before you've even stretched your legs properly, it closes shut. For here to there it's all just the farty sputter of lantern. And they call that having lived. It's not worth the bother of putting on your shoes.
Herta Müller
The world is not a costume ball.
Herta Müller
If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have.
Herta Müller
A lot of people think packing a suitcase is something you learn through practice, like singing or praying.
Herta Müller
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