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Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

— Günter Grass The Boys' Crusade (2003)

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Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.

We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary. We, indestructible!

The Rat (1986)

I shall speak of … how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another … Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next … Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

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