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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

Bernhard Schlink

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
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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Memories Sometimes Stay True
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Somewhere
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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Bravery Causes Good
We make our own truths and lies….Truths are often lies and lies truths.
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Lying Make Own Truth
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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Past Remembered Repeated
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Reader Suffering
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Love More Reader Suffering
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
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Law Stories Successful
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
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Feeling Long Sad Thinking
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
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
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews?
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Believe Experiment Fall Guilt

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