Quotes about Berlin

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Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal h — Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hang — Charlotte Eriksson
I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the — Charlotte Eriksson
It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonligh — Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more b — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi’s and goodbyes — Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light. — Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
The feminist girls she knew at Oberlin, her roommate among them, were the kind of people who made you feel bad for likin — Brian Morton
Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I as — Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted s — Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like — Charlotte Eriksson
Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give. — stephen christian
The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will — Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside t — Janet Fitch, White Oleander
There were days when I still put on make up in case you’d come back,but I wear the same clothes and shower in the rainan — Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,I was the kid in a grey ho — Charlotte Eriksson
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hang — Charlotte Eriksson
My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music. — Charlotte Eriksson
People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That it’s a concept — Charlotte Eriksson
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than — Slavoj Žižek