The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
("The Reader")
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I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.Bernhard Schlink
The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.
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I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.
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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
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Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
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