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Stasiland Quotes Flashcards

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Detaining

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Detaining people clearly had its own pleasures

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Palm major N

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The Palm of his hand

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Break heart

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Five new and different ways to break a heart

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Mess / order

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The mess that gives rise to all that order

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Chaos

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Orderly chaos

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Linoleum refuses

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It refuses to admit a single thing of beauty or joy

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Linoleum practical

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Practical Lino browness, washed and waxed and charmless

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Mortgage

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So hard to know what kind of mortgage our acts put on our future

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Lost world

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Perspective on this lost world

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Courage (Frau)

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Had the courage to do the right thing

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Never

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Things are never, really, over.

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Crusade

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Lone crusader against forgetting

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her past

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I see a woman who leaves her past in a box and comes to collect it

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In her arms

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I look at the Box on her arms and realise you cannot destroy your past

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Detail

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Every detail was foreseen

Location of the doorbell

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Everything

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This man new everything

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Spheres

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Until you have no private sphere at all

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Perfected

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The most perfected surveillance state of all time

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Logic

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GDR logic

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Enjoyment

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His enjoyment at having me at his mercy

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Major N.

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One long finger on her handwriting, or her lovers

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Religion

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The GDR was like a religion

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We’d

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When they’d left we knew we’d won

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Plate

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All the courage I had is in that plate

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Scratch

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Scratch the GDR at its marrow

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Innocence (klaus)

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An innocence he didn’t let them damage

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Personal victory

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Didn’t let them get to me

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Cruelty (Miriam prison)

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I was basically no longer human

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Hagen Koch divorce

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At that moment my world broke apart

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East nostalgia

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The new sticklebrick word: Ostalgie

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The clearer

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The clearer you see the worse you feel

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Shadenfreude

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A pleasure derived from others misfortune

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“Wall in head”

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Mauer in Kopf

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Weltanshauung

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A personal philosophy on life

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Verganheitswelganigung

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The process of coming to terms with your own past

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Memory - what it stands for?

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Memory, like so much else is unreliable

36
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Genuine nostalgia

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Has coloured a cheap and nasty world golden

37
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Present

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The present already belongs to your past

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Frau’s image

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This seems to me the sorriest thing

The picture she has of herself is one the Stasi made

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Julia’s view on memory

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I think it’s worse if you repress it

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Fiction

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An assortments of fiction as fact

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Von schnitzels view of erich meilke

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A living example of the most humane being

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Frabrication art

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An art, a deeply political art

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sleight of history

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The most extraordinary innocence manoeuvre of the century

44
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Erich Meilke

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Certainly the most feared man in the GDR

45
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Herr Bock

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Convince of the cause

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