“…what did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do: it brought forth a round, human tear. lt made them cry. At last they were able to cry again. To cry properly, without restraint, to cry like mad. The tears flowed and washed everything away.”
— Günter Grass, “The Tin Drum”
(Nobel Prize for Literature, 1999)
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