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.
BERNHARD SCHLINKAs 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.
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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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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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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 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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It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.
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Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.
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The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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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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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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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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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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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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why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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