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I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

Bernhard Schlink

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
I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.
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Angel Complete Entered Heaven One Talk Thing
Philosophy has forgotten about children
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Children Forgotten Philosophy
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
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn’t do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
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Retreat Struggle Victory
I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. …And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.
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Children Love Myself Parents Perhaps Responsible Talk
There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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Doe Lying Needs
As an author, you can’t expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that’s what you hope for, you shouldn’t sell the rights.
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Book Illustration Move Rights
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
I’m not frightened. I’m not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice.
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Angel Beautiful Heaven
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn’t do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
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Retreat Show Struggle Victory
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
Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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Bravery Causes Good
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
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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Futile Law Stories Successful

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