The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.
We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, f… - Anna Funder
We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, f…
- Anna Funder
I am a woman on her way to eat cake. - Anna Funder
I am a woman on her way to eat cake.
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. - Anna Funder
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have t… - Anna Funder
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have t…
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and th… - Anna Funder
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and th…
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us - Anna Funder
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? - Anna Funder
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance - Anna Funder
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. - Anna Funder
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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