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We make our own truths and lies ... Truths are often lies and lies truths ...

To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.

But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible.

You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Berg, Sophia may be a Greek name, but that is no reason for you to study your neighbor in a Greek lesson. Translate!

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.

In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved

The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.

When did you know you were going to be a writer?
I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again.

I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..

I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.

I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

We all condemned our parents to shame, even if the only charge we could bring was that after 1945 they had tolerated the perpetrators in their midst.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

Which animal do you see when you hold me and close your eyes and think of animals?

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.