Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us