Hans Fallada Quotes

#1. The trembling increased, a moan of grief was heard, nothing articulate - as a bird in the night sometimes laments alone.

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#2. The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.

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#3. Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn.

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#4. I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

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#5. Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

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#6. It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

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#7. As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone.

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#8. She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

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#9. Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.

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#10. And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, that it went on so endlessly. Hadn't he once believed that it was all over? The worst thing was that it went on. And on, and on, with no end in sight.

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#11. Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

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#12. Anna Quangel felt herself trembling. Then she looked over at Otto again. He might be right: whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was, you fought back. Still

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