"The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage."

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Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

Ernst Toller

#Sausage Quotes #Enough Quotes #Starvation Quotes

“A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism”
“Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.”
“You basically only discover a new thing once.”
“Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.”
“Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.”
“Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.”
“Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.”
“Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.”

Source : "Sunday Conversation: Igudesman & Joo". Interview with Irene Lacher, articles.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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