Herta Müller quotes - page 2

You can think all kinds of things. But you can't know for sure. (Herta Müller)
Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object. View quote
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Inside the camp the we-form is singular. View quote
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Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. View quote
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I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done. View quote
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Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it? View quote
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Working with language requires beauty for me. View quote
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You can't rearrange freshly fallen snow, you can't fix snow so it looks untouched. You can rework earth, and sand and even grass if you try hard enough. Water takes care of itself, because it swallows everything and flows back together once it's done swallowing. And air is always in place because you can't see it. Everything but snow would have kept quiet. View quote
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Perhaps we had to stand so long as to stop the time in motion. Our bones became heavy as iron. When the flesh on your body disappears, your bones become a burden, and the ground pulls you down. View quote
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Riding somewhere was always a happy thing. First of all: as long as you're moving, you haven't arrived. As long as you haven't arrived, you don't have to work. Riding in truck gives you time to recover. Second: when you ride, you come to some place that couldn't care less about you. you can't be yelled at or beaten by a tree. Under a tree, yes but the tree can't help that. View quote
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To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. (Herta Müller)
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that. View quote
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In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations. View quote
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In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing. View quote
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World world sister world When shall I tire of you. When my bread is dry When my hand forgets my glass When the coffin's boxed me in Maybe that's when I'll be tired of you. ... Living is despairing And the dead they rot away. View quote
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You can't build a future if you don't have a past. View quote
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I never wanted to be a writer. View quote
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Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language. View quote
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As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman. View quote
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