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People are forever quoting Talleyrand’s remark that language is only there in order to hide the thoughts of the diplomat (or for that matter of any other shrewd and dubious person). But in fact the…
Contributor:
Victor Klemperer
Places:
Dölzschen, East Germany (Dölzschen, Germany)
Date:
1947
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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
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Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1719
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Something is wrong between me and the story I want to write. Whatever subject I touch on, after five or four, sometimes even two pages, either the story throws me out or I throw myself out. As if I…
Contributor:
Monika Maron
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1999