Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.
I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness. - Christa Wolf
I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.
- Christa Wolf
There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger. - Christa Wolf
There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.
The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun. - Christa Wolf
The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.
When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come. - Christa Wolf
When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.
Between killing and dying there's a third way: live - Christa Wolf
Between killing and dying there's a third way: live
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? - Christa Wolf
A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?
Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know. - Christa Wolf
Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.
The past is not dead - it isn't even past - Christa Wolf
The past is not dead - it isn't even past
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruct… - Christa Wolf
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruct…
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