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The more I suffer, the more I love.

Bernhard 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.
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Answers Children Thinking
…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
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
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Reader Suffering
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
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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Beautiful Dark Shatter Truth
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
We make our own truths and lies….Truths are often lies and lies truths.
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Lying Make Own Truth
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 certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I’ve never tried that.
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Citizens Married Trying
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
There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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Lying Truth Needs
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
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 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

The more I suffer, the more I love.

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