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.
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.
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. - Bernhard Schlink
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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…
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.
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…
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