Герта Мюллер цитаты
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“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”
Источник: The Land of Green Plums
“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68
“No novels, since you just read them once and never again.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 7
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 81
The Appointment (1997)
“The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17
“There (Kaschau) the mountains stare down through our heads until we die.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 55
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 80
The Appointment (1997)
“The world is not a costume ball”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 5
“Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 261
“You can think all kinds of things. But you can't know for sure.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 61
“Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 81
“Inside the camp the we-form is singular.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 251
“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 198
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 92
The Appointment (1997)
“I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 2
“I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 4
“Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 74
“Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”
Источник: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 149