"Is this what sadness is all about? Is……" — Bernhard Schlink
"Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?"
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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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I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before…
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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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