Heinrich Boll

Writer

1917-12-21

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

• Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

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• Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

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• On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

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• Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

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