Living is despairing, and the dead they rot away.
~ Herta Müller

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If you don’t have the right things, you improvise, and the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they’re what you have.
~ Herta Müller

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I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
~ Herta Müller

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How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you’re hungry. If you can’t think of anything else.
~ Herta Müller

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Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you’re so impossibly close is unbearable.
~ Herta Müller

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Boredom is fear’s patience. Fear doesn’t want to exaggerate.
~ Herta Müller

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The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.
~ Herta Müller

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I simply wanted to go to a place that didn’t know who I was.
~ Herta Müller

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There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.
~ Herta Müller

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A lot of people think packing a suitcase is something you learn through practice, like singing or praying.
~ Herta Müller

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