I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.
My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same ti… - Herta Muller
My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same ti…
- Herta Muller
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. - Herta Muller
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity". - Herta Muller
Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening. - Herta Muller
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it? - Herta Muller
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear. - Herta Muller
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that. - Herta Muller
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together? - Herta Muller
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
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… - Herta Muller
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…
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