Tăcerea nu-i o pauză în vorbire, ci o treabă în sine.
Herta Müllerاذا صمتنا نفر الآخرون منا، واذا تكلمنا ضحكوا علينا
Herta MüllerCuando callamos, resultamos desagradables ... cuando hablamos, quedamos en ridículo.
Herta MüllerTags: herta-muller
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Herta MüllerEven judges' children hear something about the world, they go to the Black Sea like everyone in the country. They look out and feel the same urge to go somewhere, feel it tugging at them from head to toe. You don't have to be particularly bad off to think: This can't be a the life I get. The judges' children know as well as Lilli and me that the same sky that looks down on the border guards stretches all the way to Italy or Canada, where things are better than here. One way or the other, the attempt will be made, whether sooner or later, in this way or that.
Herta MüllerTags: immigration
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.
Herta MüllerTags: solitude
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
Herta MüllerTags: fear authoritarianism
If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
Herta MüllerTags: dictatorship immigration
Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off when you stop growing, because childhood is all gone. And they grow back when you shrivel up, because love is all gone. Leaves spring up at will, writes Lola, just like tall grass. Two or three children in the village don't have any leaves, and those have a big childhood. A child like that is an only child, because it has a father and a mother who have been to school. The leaf-fleas turn older children into younger ones - a four-year-old into a three-year-old, a three-year-old into a one-year-old. Even a six-months-old, writes Lola, and even a newborn. And the more little brothers and sisters the leaf-fleas make, the smaller the childhood becomes.
Herta MüllerTags: childhood
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
Herta MüllerTags: death death-and-dying hunger starvation gulag will-to-live
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