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Anna Seghers Quotes

1900–1983 Germany

Anna Seghers (German: [ˈana ˈzeːɡɛʁs]; born Anna Reiling, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983) was a writer who was born into a Jewish family in Germany. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.

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A miracle that he was even speaking, and then to say what he had said. Usually you hear only about the things that excited people, never about what silenced them. (from "Tales of Artemis")

The whole town was a tortuous net in which he was already caught. He would have to slip through the meshes. (chapter III p173)

The Seventh Cross (1942)

If there remained in him only the strength for one tiny movement in the direction of freedom, no matter how senseless and useless the movement, he would still want to make it. (chapter III p173)

The Seventh Cross (1942)

It happened the first week of April, I think. (beginning of "The Lord's Prayer")

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anna Seghers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.