“The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.”

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

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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist 1953

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