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1 " The bell rings, we get up. The bell rings again, we go to bed. We retire to our rooms; we saw life pass by beneath our windows, observed it in books and on our walks, watched the seasons change. It was always a reflection, a reflection that seemed to freeze on our windowsills... We imagined the world. What else can we imagine now if not our own deaths? The bell rings and it's all over. "
― Fleur Jaeggy , Sweet Days of Discipline
2 " Habría podido escribir una novela de amor con sequedad de corazón, como una anciana que recordara. "
3 " I still thought that to get something you had to go straight for your goal whereas it is only distractions, uncertainty, distance that bring us closer to our targets, and then it is the targets which strike us. "
4 " Inside, a mother superior, ethereal, delicate, who took me under her wing. She caressed me with her slender, soft hands, she sat next to me as if I were a friend. One day she disappeared. In her place arrived a buxom Swiss from Canton Uri. It's common knowledge that a new leader will hate the predecessors' favourites. A boarding school is like a harem. "
5 " Once when I was eight years old my grandmother asked me, what will you do when you grow up? And I answered, I want to die. I want to die when I grow up. I want to die soon. And I think my sister really liked that answer. "
― Fleur Jaeggy , I Am the Brother of XX
6 " What are the girls thinking of? At least half are nostalgic for death, and for a temple, and for all of those clothes. "
7 " The wind wrinkled the dark lake and my thoughts as it swept on the clouds, chopped them up with its hatchet; between them you could just glimpse the Last Judgement, finding each of us guilty of nothing. "
8 " People, nearly all of them, don’t know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know. My sister thought she knew. Knew the human race. . . . Knowledge doesn’t know. But that’s something few understand. "
9 " I've found it hard sometimes to turn my back on the natural call of the waves, and I don't envy the temperament of vultures or of stars. The blinds at my windows have been fluttering for fifty years. "
― Fleur Jaeggy , The Water Statues
10 " Cuando se está allí dentro, una imagina cosas grandiosas sobre el mundo, y cuando sale, a veces desearía volver a oír el sonido de la campana. "
11 " A scent of celery settled over me. Here in Amsterdam the way fish is displayed is so considerate, but the garlic isn't very white. "
12 " His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could close his eyelids. The room smoked of grief. "
― Fleur Jaeggy , These Possible Lives
13 " La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía. "
14 " But one does have to give words some credit. One has to at least pretend that they more or less resemble their meaning. Their shady meaning. "
15 " Hemos imaginado el mundo. ¿Qué otra cosa puede imaginarse si no es la propia muerte? El sonido de una campana y todo ha terminado. "
16 " Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part, alluring as dreams. It takes place of what we think is real. - pg. 11-12 "
― Fleur Jaeggy , S. S. Proleterka
17 " You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies "
18 " On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist. "
19 " Desde el día en que entramos en el Bausler Institut no hicimos más que pensar en el día que saldríamos. "
20 " Todavía hoy no logro expresar con palabras que me había enamorado de Frédérique; es una frase muy fácil de decir. "
