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.
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 … - Bernhard Schlink
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 …
- Bernhard Schlink
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences… - Bernhard Schlink
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences…
I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want … - Bernhard Schlink
I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want …
The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated. - Bernhard Schlink
The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. - Bernhard Schlink
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. - Bernhard Schlink
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worth… - Bernhard Schlink
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worth…
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 w… - 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 w…
There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does. - Bernhard Schlink
There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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