Siegfried Lenz Quotes

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

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• One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

  

  Siegfried Lenz
  • Balance
  • Decades
  • Embarrassment