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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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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Living is despairing, and the dead they rot away.
~ 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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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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I don’t know if I can’t sleep because I am trying to recall the objects, or whether I struggle to recall them because I can’t sleep.
~ Herta Müller
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