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I am a woman on her way to eat cake.
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Cake
Way
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
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Creation
Cynicism
Glances
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one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
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Doe
Pain
Suffering Of Others
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Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
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Drank
East
West
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
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Grit
Past
Pearls
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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Imagination
People
Suffering Of Others
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
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Memories
Unreliable
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.
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Our Love
Remember
Who We Are
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We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.
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Arena
Fighting
Ideas
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I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.
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Eye
Saws
Watches
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There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.
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Issues
Littles
People
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Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.
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Betrayal
Mistress
Psychology
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I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
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Taken
Two
Worry
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I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.
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Light
People
Thinking
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For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
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Ordinary
Past
People
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The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.
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Dream
Running
Space
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This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.
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Dream
Real
Together
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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
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Beautiful
Names
School
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