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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.

Bernhard Schlink

When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
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
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 SCHLINK

Ourselves Submerge Vanish Yourself
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
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
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
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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Memories Sometimes Stay True
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 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.
BERNHARD SCHLINK

Accepted Sometimes Want
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 SCHLINK

Book Illustration Move Rights
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
Philosophy has forgotten about children
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Children Forgotten Philosophy
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
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
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
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Somewhere

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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