Quotes by : Bernhard Schlink

People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you think....

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

Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie,când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine,când ne pierdemtu....

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

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the....

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and....

When he answered, he went all the way back to beginnings. He instructed me about the individual, about....

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

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I....

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