Bernhard Schlink Quotes

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• Bravery is good when the cause is good. Bravery
• I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become… American
• As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice… Assign
• When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. Airplane
• Philosophy has forgotten about children Children
• The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated. Inspirational
• There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor,… Doctor
• The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later… Absolutely
• There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does. Doe
• 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… Answers
• What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must… Book
• Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. Arriving
• I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if… Always Better
• What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus… Feeling Sad
• Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.. Cannot Stay
• I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… Avoiding
• Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn… All
• 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… Becoming
• The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? Both
• 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… Admitted

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