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Bernhard Schlink

“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
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The Reader The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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