Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.
Gunter Grass
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
art passion expression fight black white paper
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
bad sacred books
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
citizenship mouth open job
We are creating the future.
future creating
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
life art
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
life mind
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
help truth business
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
nature
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
chance growth change language
circumstances thetimes time
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
family
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
places crime experience
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
age
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
leisure principles age work
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
peace
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