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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.

Bernhard Schlink

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
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
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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Open Ourselves Submerge Vanish
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
The more I suffer, the more I love.
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Reader Suffering
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Somewhere
The past has to be remembered, so that it’s never repeated.
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Past Remembered Repeated
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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Ourselves Submerge Vanish Yourself
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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Apology Begged Hurt Mistake
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Airplane Failing Flight
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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Right Risk Running Thing Trapped
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
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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Answers Children Thinking
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Labyrinth Memories Passion
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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Arriving Running Running Away
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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Answers Chests Rummaged

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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