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.
BERNHARD SCHLINKI 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.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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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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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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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 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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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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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.
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We make our own truths and lies….Truths are often lies and lies truths.
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I 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.
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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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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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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