Herta Müller - Time Quotes

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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.

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Riding somewhere was always a happy thing. First of all: as long as you're moving, you haven't arrived. As long as you haven't arrived, you don't have to work. Riding in truck gives you time to recover. Second: when you ride, you come to some place that couldn't care less about you. you can't be yelled at or beaten by a tree. Under a tree, yes but the tree can't help that.

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The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are.

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Perhaps we had to stand so long as to stop the time in motion. Our bones became heavy as iron. When the flesh on your body disappears, your bones become a burden, and the ground pulls you down.

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