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No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

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It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

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For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

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Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

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Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.

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Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

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The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

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We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

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Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Writer

Born: December 21st, 1917

Died: July 16th, 1985

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