Quotes by : Bernhard Schlink

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why....

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers.....

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen....

I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and....

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

As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what....

They waited awhile before lighting the candles; the gloom allowed the past to slip cozily into the present.....

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying....