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“Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.”

Quote by Christa Wolf

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Christa Wolf was a German literary critic and author, renowned for her profound psychological portraits and reflections on the social changes in East Germany. Her works often explore the relationship between the individual and the collective, history and memory. more

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