You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.
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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