The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
BERNHARD SCHLINKI 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.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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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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…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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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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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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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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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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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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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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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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There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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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.
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