"I love writing, and I am never as……" — Bernhard Schlink
"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."
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42 Quotes by Bernhard Schlink
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Bravery is good when the cause is good.
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever…
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When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
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Philosophy has forgotten about children
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The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
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There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a…
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The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up…
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There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
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I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to…
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society?…
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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