Günter Grass - Silent Quotes

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I was silent. Because so many others have kept silent, the temptation is great … to shift the blame onto the collective guilt, or to talk about oneself only figuratively in the third person: He was, saw, did, said, he kept silent.

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The brief inscription meant for me reads: 'I kept silent'.

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