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The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads. — Herta Muller

Every shift is a work of art. — Herta Muller

Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples. — Herta Muller

I never wanted to be a writer. — Herta Muller

Then you go on talking, about something you never actually mention. And your forehead and mouth are as far apart as they can be. — Herta Muller

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. — Herta Muller

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves. — Herta Muller

Hunger is an object. — Herta Muller

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it? — Herta Muller

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear. — Herta Muller

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face. — Herta Muller

Who can take a single step with his head? — Herta Muller

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. — Herta Muller

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched. — Herta Muller

Hunger is not an object. — Herta Muller

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand. — Herta Muller

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished. — Herta Muller

Sand can be any shade of yellow, from peroxide blond to canary, or even with a tinge of pink.
Yellow sand is tender. — Herta Muller

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together? — Herta Muller

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity. — Herta Muller

Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers. — Herta Muller

I've always had just enough sense to spare others, but never enough to save myself from misfortune. — Herta Muller

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look. — Herta Muller

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you. — Herta Muller

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country. — Herta Muller

Silence is also a form of speaking. — Herta Muller

The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us. — Herta Muller

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes. — Herta Muller

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself. — Herta Muller

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening. — Herta Muller

In the trinity of skin, bones, and brown water, men and women lose all difference. — Herta Muller

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think? — Herta Muller

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations. — Herta Muller

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that. — Herta Muller

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin. — Herta Muller