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The ingenuous open heart preserves one's ability to say 'I' to a stranger, until a moment comes when this strange 'I' returns and enters into 'me' again. Then at one blow the heart is captive, one is pre-possessed; that much can be foretold.

Christa Wolf

Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.

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The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

Christa Wolf

To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot – and the world can look a different place. And then where is this 'self '?

Christa Wolf

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human species is based on.

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf

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Born: March 18, 1929

Died: December 1, 2011 (aged 82)

Bio: Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She was one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.

Known for:

Cassandra (1985)
Divided Heaven (1963)
The Quest for Christa T. (1968)
No Place on Earth (1982)

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