"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
"The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous."
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Source: Diary of a Snail (On Stasis and Progress). Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.
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