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Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive – a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body
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Awkward Seductive World
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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Book Law Lawyer
Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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Bravery Causes Good
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Somewhere
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 Struggle Victory
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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Lying Truth Needs
The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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Past Remembered Repeated
There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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Doe Lying Needs
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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Law Stories Successful
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
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
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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Children Love Myself Parents Perhaps Responsible Talk
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
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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Citizen Married Trying

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