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Kathe Kollwitz Quotes: Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
         

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.


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Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.



It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.



I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.



I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.



I was put in this world to change it.

I was put in this world to change it.



Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?



I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.



There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.



While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.



I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.





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For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.



I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.



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