German - Novelist | August 17, 1953 -
Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return other than that we think and feel.
Herta Muller
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Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.
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Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.
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Working with language requires beauty for me.
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As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.
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For me, each journey to Romania is also a journey into another time, in which I never knew which events in my life were coincidence and which were staged. This is why I have, in every public statement I have made, demanded access to the secret files kept on me which, under various pretexts, have invariably been denied me.
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One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.
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You can't build a future if you don't have a past.
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I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.
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