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.
BERNHARD SCHLINKThere’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
More Bernhard Schlink Quotes
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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 took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn’t made, intentions I’d never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me.
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why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
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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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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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What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews?
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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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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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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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As an author, you can’t expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that’s what you hope for, you shouldn’t sell the rights.
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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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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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The more I suffer, the more I love.
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