“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.”

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

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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist 1953

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