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But I must say it has been, in general, a boon not to have been a beautiful woman. Because I was barely looked at, I was free to do the looking.

My body floated, loose from spent pleasure.

It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings

In August, the Hungarians cut the barbed wire at their border with Austria, creating the first hole in the Eastern Bloc.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

The judge, for instance, who signed the warrant for Charlie's arrest that last time he went into remand is still on the bench.

When Hitler came to power I was in the bath.

At ground level Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works.

People no longer wanted right or left - they wanted middle-of-the-road.

They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

Apparently, even in the GDR, sleep deprivation amounted to torture, and torture, at least of minors, was not official policy.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

Laid out upright and end to end, the files the Stasi kept on their countrymen and women would form a line 180 kilometres long.

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.

This was perfect dictator-logic: we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.

At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,

There are some people just the thought of whom makes us behave better.

But there was also a car - for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada - that

One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us