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Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

Bernhard Schlink

Or is there no such thing as ‘too late’? Is there only ‘late’ and is ‘late’ always better than ‘never’? I don’t know.
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Knows Late Too
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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Beautiful Dark Shatter Truth
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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Memories Sometimes Stay True
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
Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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Bravery Causes Good
Philosophy has forgotten about children
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Children Forgotten Philosophy
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
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
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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Crime Monster People
…I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her.
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Children Done Parent
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
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
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
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Love More Reader Suffering
I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.
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Answers Children Thinking

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