Quotes from Bernhard Schlink

Pensei que, quando se deixa passar o momento certo, quando alguém recusou algo tempo de mais, quando nos é recusado algo tempo de mais, esse algo chega forçosamente demasiado tarde mesmo que seja realmente desejado com força e acolhido com alegria.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Sé que me pareció hermosa. Pero no consigo evocar su hermosura.

Ou não há 'tarde demais', apenas 'tarde', sendo 'tarde' de qualquer modo melhor do que 'nunca'?

Toda generación tiene el deber de rechazar lo que sus padres esperan de ella. En

We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?

Ist diese Traurigkeit die Traurigkeit schlechthin? Ist sie es, die uns befällt, wenn schöne Erinnerungen im Rückblick brüchig werden, weil das erinnerte Glück nicht nur aus der Situation, sondern aus einem Versprechen lebte, das nicht gehalten wurde?

Acostumei-me a uma atitude debochada, superior, mostrando-me como alguém a quem nada afetava, abalava, desesperava.

Da qualche anno la lascio stare, la nostra storia. Ho fatto pace con lei. Ed ecco che è ritornata, particolare su particolare e in maniera così rotonda, conchiusa e regolata, che ora non mi rende più triste. Che razza di storia triste! ho pensato per tanto tempo. Non è che adesso pensi che sia felice. Ma penso che sia giusta.

Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi situaciju, a ne stoga što je otežavamo?

Cuando nos abrimos, tú a mí y yo a ti, cuando nos sumergimos, tú en mí y yo en ti, cuando nos olvidamos, tú en mí y yo en ti. Sólo entonces, yo soy yo y tú eres tú.

Ich weiß nicht, woher ich die Courage nahm, zu Frau Schmitz zu gehen. Kehrte sich die moralische Erziehung gewissermaßen gegen sich selbst? Wenn der begehrliche Blick so schlimm war wie die Befriedigung der Begierde, das aktive Phantasieren so schlimm wie der phantasierte Akt – warum dann nicht die Befriedigung und den Akt?

People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn't go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis, please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.

Pero la acción no se limita a llevar a cabo lo que he pensado y decidido previamente. Surge de una fuente propia, y es tan independiente como lo es mi pensamiento y lo son mis decisiones.

? nhà tôi, cô th?y mình nhÆ° k? Ä'á»™t nh?p.

Sie hatten Angst vor dem Abschied, und zugleich versetzte sein Bevorstehen sie in eigentümliche Leichtigkeit. Sie waren nicht mehr im gemeinsamen und noch nicht im eigenen Leben, sie waren im Niemandsland.

What is it?' 'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her. 'You sighed.' 'I'd like to be further along than I am.' She snuggled against his side. 'I know that feeling. But don't we make progress in fits and starts? Nothing happens for a long time, then suddenly we get a surprise, have an encounter, reach a decision point, and we're no longer the same as we were before.

Schalftrunken, farbentrunken, freiheitstrunken - ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin und wo wir fahren. Ich habe vergessen, wo ich herkomme.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy.

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When no one understands you, then no one can call you to account. -------- ... if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy... ------ In every part of my life, too, I stood outside myself and watched; I saw myself functioning at the university, with my parents and brother and sister and my friends, but inwardly I felt no involvement.

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

Man schätzt das Alter schwer, das man noch nicht hinter sich hat oder auf sich zukommen sieht.

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