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Bernhard Schlink42 quotes“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
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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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn’t made, intentions I’d never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink Bravery is good when the cause is good.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink 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.
Bernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink
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