100 Quotes by Herta Müller
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The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us.
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In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don’t often receive invitations.
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Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.
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As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.
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If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over.
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Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
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My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.
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I am a broken person.
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My mother tongue is German.
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