humanity

Los Angeles

mutually assured destruction

past

secret

occupation / innovator as

novelist

politician

screenwriter

nationality

German

journalist

literary critic

essayist

cause of death

natural causes

science fiction writer

scientific organization

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

 Berlin

innovator in the field of

essay

unofficial collaborator

Academy of Arts

Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

is marked by the uncanny ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on. Christa Wolf

is a city full of nonsense and delusion and egomania... a city where they think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now. Christopher Hitchens

is an absurd notion which in the end is nothing other than the fact that 'he who strikes first will die second.

What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'' I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war... that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. . . . Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second. Christa Wolf

The past is not dead it isn't even past Christa Wolf

 can ravage you, and other secrets make you stronger.

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger. Christa Wolf

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