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Bernhard Schlink quotes: We make our own truths and lies ... Truths are often lies and lies truths ...

We make our own truths and lies ... Truths are often lies and lies truths ...

Bernhard Schlink quotes: To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.

To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible.

But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Philosophy has forgotten about children

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Bernhard Schlink quotes: I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: 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.

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.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Berg, Sophia may be a Greek name, but that is no reason for you to study your neighbor in a Greek lesson. Translate!

Berg, Sophia may be a Greek name, but that is no reason for you to study your neighbor in a Greek lesson. Translate!

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Bernhard Schlink quotes: I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.

I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: 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

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

Bernhard Schlink quotes: The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.

The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again.

When did you know you were going to be a writer?
I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.

I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..

Bernhard Schlink quotes: I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.

I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

Bernhard Schlink quotes: We all condemned our parents to shame, even if the only charge we could bring was that after 1945 they had tolerated the perpetrators in their midst.

We all condemned our parents to shame, even if the only charge we could bring was that after 1945 they had tolerated the perpetrators in their midst.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: The more I suffer, the more I love.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Which animal do you see when you hold me and close your eyes and think of animals?

Which animal do you see when you hold me and close your eyes and think of animals?

Bernhard Schlink quotes: The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Bernhard Schlink quotes: Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

Bernhard Schlink quotes: So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.