There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
BERNHARD SCHLINKSometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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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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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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why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
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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 more I suffer, the more I love.
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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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I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. …And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.
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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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