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The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.

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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Open Ourselves Submerge Vanish
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
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.
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Apology Begged Hurt Mistake
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Somewhere
Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.
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Apologize Herself Rigid Sometimes Warmth
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Reader Suffering
I can’t say I’m thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn’t want to escape it. I have accepted it.
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Accepted Sometimes Want
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
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 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
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
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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Law Stories Successful
I can’t say I’m thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn’t want to escape it. I have accepted it.
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Accepted Sometimes Want
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

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