When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
BERNHARD SCHLINKI 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.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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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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There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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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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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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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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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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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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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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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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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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The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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We make our own truths and lies….Truths are often lies and lies truths.
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