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Or is there no such thing as ‘too late’? Is there only ‘late’ and is ‘late’ always better than ‘never’? I don’t know.

Bernhard Schlink

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
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Memories Sometimes Stay True
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Love More Reader Suffering
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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Beautiful Dark Shatter Truth
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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Retreat Show Struggle Victory
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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Apologize Herself Rigid Sometimes Warmth
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
Or is there no such thing as ‘too late’? Is there only ‘late’ and is ‘late’ always better than ‘never’? I don’t know.
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Knows Late Too
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.
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Angel Complete Entered Heaven One Talk Thing
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
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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Accepted Sometimes Want
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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Angel Beautiful Heaven
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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Laundry Past Smell Sweat
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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Betray Criminals Guilty
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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Doctors Teachers Want
Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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Bravery Causes Good

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