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

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Herta Müller, born on August 17, 1953, is a renowned novelist from Romania. Her works are characterized by their deep personal experiences and critical reflections on social realities, and she has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. more

“I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.”

Light Names Language Perfect Consciousness Identity Equal Shadow Mirrors Add Absence Supreme Over You Void Offering Contemplating Nothingness Delicious Passivity Define You

Author:Maurice Blanchot

“My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?”

World Eye Night Universe Views Imagine Figures Perspective Harmony Profound Deny Point Of View Absence Supreme Fades Unreal Fade Away Negation

Author:Maurice Blanchot

“Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.”

Knows Giving Wells Land Taught Holy Lessons Israel Palestinian Syria Jordan Lebanon Holy Land

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something... Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... But I mustn't get my hopes up.”

Looks Said Moments Might Eye Mother Courses Cry Died His Eyes Upstairs Cupboards Sirius Hopes Up

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.”

Ends Heard Produce Raised Dear Silver Length Halls Bonus Dear Friend Wands Stags Umbridge

Author:J. K. Rowling

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