Herta Müller citations (29 citations)

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“Je sais, dit Adina, les hommes avaient des femmes, les femmes avaient des enfants, les enfants avaient faim.”

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

Herta Müller: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 3

“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.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 26

“Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.”

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Herta Müller livre The Land of Green Plums

Source: The Land of Green Plums

“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”

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Herta Müller livre The Land of Green Plums

Source: The Land of Green Plums

“The war was still on in January 1945. In their dismay at my being shipped off in the dead of winter to who knows where in Russia, everyone wanted to give me something that might be of use, even if it couldn't be help. Because nothing in the world could possible help.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 1

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

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68

“No novels, since you just read them once and never again.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 7

“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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Herta Müller livre The Appointment

Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 81
The Appointment (1997)

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

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17

“There (Kaschau) the mountains stare down through our heads until we die.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 55

“You go out for a walk and the world opens up for you. And before you’ve even stretched your legs properly, it closes shut. For here to there it’s all just the farty sputter of lantern. And they call that having lived. It’s not worth the bother of putting on your shoes.”

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Herta Müller livre The Appointment

Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 80
The Appointment (1997)

“The world is not a costume ball”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 5

“Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 261

“If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 6

“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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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 50

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

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 6

“You can think all kinds of things. But you can't know for sure.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 61

“Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 81

“Inside the camp the we-form is singular.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 251

“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 198

“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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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 20

“World world sister world
When shall I tire of you.
When my bread is dry
When my hand forgets my glass
When the coffin’s boxed me in
Maybe that’s when I’ll be tired of you.
…
Living is despairing
And the dead they rot away”

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Herta Müller livre The Appointment

Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 92
The Appointment (1997)

“I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 2

“I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 4

“You can't rearrange freshly fallen snow, you can't fix snow so it looks untouched. You can rework earth, and sand and even grass if you try hard enough. Water takes care of itself, because it swallows everything and flows back together once it's done swallowing. And air is always in place because you can't see it. Everything but snow would have kept quiet.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 11

“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.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17–18

“Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 74

“Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”

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Herta Müller livre The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 149

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