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Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer and writer. His novel The Reader, first published in 1995, became an international bestseller.



✵ 6. July 1944
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Famous Bernhard Schlink Quotes

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

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“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 be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“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?”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Variant: ... So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Source: The Reader

“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“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 the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

Bernhard Schlink Quotes about life

“I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“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.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“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 of life.”

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Bernhard Schlink Quotes

“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

Then
am I me
and you are you.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“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 was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

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