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People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

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I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

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How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

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Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

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I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

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We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

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No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

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When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Author

Born: October 16th, 1927

Died: April 13th, 2015

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