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Herta Muller Biography

Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German. Since the early 1990s she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.

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Who can take a single step with his head?

Action, Head, Single, Single Step, Steps, Take

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

Differences, Eye, Hurt, Ones, Take, Telling

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Hands, Head, Said, Silent, Writing

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Actually, Happenings, Things, Understand, Way, Written

My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.

Death, Flesh, Hands, Hurt, Pain, Way

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Invitations, Particularly, Receive, Romanian, Wells

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.

Become, Hate, Lean, Needs, Order, Women

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Edgar, Fool, Fools, Said, Speak, Unbearable

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Death, Friends, Needs, Risk, Spy

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

Alone, Everyday, People, Sight, Stay, Yearning

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

And Love, Eat, Fear, Sleep, Walk

Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

Concrete, Home, Long, Sleep, Smolder, Walk

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

Doe, Know, Like, Looks, Writing

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

Able, Country, Everyone, Leave, Stay, Would Be

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Combat, Death, Just One, Life, Needs