Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
BERNHARD SCHLINKThere’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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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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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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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.
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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. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid.
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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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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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But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive – a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body
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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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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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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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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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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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