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There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Bernhard Schlink

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.
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Answers Chests Rummaged
So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.
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Betray Criminals Guilty
When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.
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Ourselves Submerge Vanish Yourself
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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Memories Sometimes Stay True
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
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Laundry Past Smell Sweat
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Reader Suffering
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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Beautiful Dark Shatter Truth
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren’t and it is one of the experiences of life.
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Monster People
Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
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Callousness Juxtaposition Sensitivity Sometimes
There’s this old saying that, if you aren’t particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don’t want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don’t know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I’ve never regretted it.
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Doctors Teachers Want
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.
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Open Ourselves Submerge Vanish
It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.
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Right Risk Running Thing Trapped
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
We make our own truths and lies….Truths are often lies and lies truths.
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Lying Make Own Truth

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