When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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.
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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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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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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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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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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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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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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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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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why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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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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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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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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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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