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Quote by Anne Frank

“Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.”

Work

This book is a compilation of personal entries and reflections written by Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who documented her experiences during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary offers a unique perspective on the horrors of war and the resilience of the human spirit, as seen through the eyes of a child. more

Author

Anne Frank

Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929, was a renowned Jewish author. Her diary, 'The Diary of a Young Girl,' is a testament to the sufferings of Jews during World War II and a classic in world literature. She and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam hiding place during the war, and her diary, written during this time, later became widely read. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. more

“While I may not have possessed the ideal personality, education, background, or qualities, or my traits may not have aligned with your expectations for success, I held an unwavering passion and motivation that proved sufficient to challenge conventional wisdom, personality profiles, and stereotypes.”

Success Motivation Passion Personality Self Mastery

Author:Aiyaz Uddin

“Über die deutsche Sprache: „Sie halten sich für tief, weil ihre Sprache unklar ist, ihr fehlt die clarté der französischen Sprache, sie sagt nie exakt das, was sie sollte, so dass kein Deutscher jemals weiß, was er sagen wollte – und dann verwechselt er diese Undeutlichkeit mit Tiefe. Es ist mit Deutschen wie mit Frauen, man gelangt bei ihnen nie auf den Grund”

Languages German Language

Book:Il cimitero di Praga

Source: Il cimitero di Praga

“The Germans had a word for everything—a word that could be very focused, very specific, because it could be constructed for a precise set of circumstances. They even had a word, it was said, for the feeling of envy experienced when one sees the tasty dishes ordered by others in a restaurant and it is too late to change one's own order. Mahlneid, meal envy, she believed that was the word—if it existed at all. ... Mahlneid could well catch on because many are bound to have felt that sort of envy as the waiter carries the dishes of others, gorgeously tantalising, past their own table....”

Humorous German Language Restaurant Meal Meal Envy Restaurant Dining

Book:The Department of Sensitive Crimes

Source: The Department of Sensitive Crimes

“Of course, Kafka doesn't see himself as a sort of party. He doesn't even pretend to be revolutionary, whatever his socialist sympathies may be. He knows that all the lines link him to a literary machine of expression for which he is simultaneously the gears, the mechanic, the operator, and the victim. So how will he proceed in this bachelor machine that doesn't make use of, and can't make use of, social critique? How will he make a revolution? He will act on the German language such as it is in Czechoslovakia. Since it is a deterritorialized language in many ways, he will push the deterritorialization farther, not through intensities, reversals and thickenings of the language but through a sobriety that makes language take flight on a straight line, anticipates or produces its segmentations. Expression must sweep up content; the same process must happen to form... It is not a politics of pessimism, nor a literary caricature or a form of science fiction.”