Bravery is good when the cause is good.
BERNHARD SCHLINKSometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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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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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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There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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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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The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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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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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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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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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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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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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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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.
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