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Die Mansarde QUOTES

Die Mansarde QUOTES

1 " Ich glaube, der alte Ferdinand las so viel, damit er nicht mit seiner Frau reden mußte. Immerhin hatten Männer damals noch soviel Autorität, daß niemand ihr Studierzimmer zu betreten wagte. Auf diese Weise wurde mein lieber Schwiegervater ein Gelehrter. "

― Marlen Haushofer , Die Mansarde

2 " I am a monster, I realised, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin. There'd be nothing wrong with that, if it weren't for the fact that every so often the monster wants to be loved and cosseted and has to grovel, whining, back to the world of men. "

― Marlen Haushofer , Die Mansarde

3 " What goes on inside us during these nights, as we lie there on our backs, drifting downstream through time and listening for the far-off roar of the mighty waterfall that one day is going to engulf us? We know that miracles don't happen, that no one to date has ever escaped the waterfall, and that we are separated from those who have already reached it by only a tiny little span of time. One day - three years, ten years, twenty years. Sometimes it doesn't seem so terrible. I need to make no effort, don't even need to move my hands in the black water; it carries me along with it of its own accord. A gentle dizziness comes over me, and I know for certain: this one goal I will reach, even if I should fail all others. Probably because it is a goal I never set myself. "

― Marlen Haushofer , Die Mansarde

4 " Basically, everything we do is bad for something, and if we were to follow all the advice on the subject the only really healthy activity would be to be dead. "

― Marlen Haushofer , Die Mansarde