Bernhard Schlink

“Philosophy does not concern itself with children. It leaves them to pedagogy. الفلسفة لا تعبأ بالأطفال ، إنها تتركهم إلى علم التربية .”

— Bernhard Schlink

“...So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one…

— Bernhard Schlink

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

— Bernhard Schlink

“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in…

— Bernhard Schlink

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

— Bernhard Schlink

“It’s hard to guess ages when you’re not that old yourself and won’t be anytime soon. من الصعب تخمين عمرٍ ما دون أن تكون تجاوزته أو أوشكت على ذلك.”

— Bernhard Schlink

“She liked being alone, and she was alone a lot. When she met people, she often found them deeply strange, their behavior…

— Bernhard Schlink

“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory. عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .”

— Bernhard Schlink

“There are matters one simply cannot get drawn into, that one must distance oneself from, if the price is not life and…

— Bernhard Schlink

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered…

— Bernhard Schlink

I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi…

— Bernhard Schlink

As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can…

— Bernhard Schlink

“People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you think these places…

— Bernhard Schlink

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She…

— Bernhard Schlink

“When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. Airplanes don’t fall out of the sky like stones.…

— Bernhard Schlink

“I don’t mean to say that thinking and reaching decisions have no influence on behavior. But behavior does not merely enact whatever…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because…

— Bernhard Schlink

“What is it?' 'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her. 'You sighed.' 'I'd like to be further along than I…

— Bernhard Schlink

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and…

— Bernhard Schlink

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love.…

— Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and…

— Bernhard Schlink

“When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the…

— Bernhard Schlink

“To anyone ignorant of history, it would be easy to see ways of life in earlier times simply as ways of life…

— Bernhard Schlink