"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 am I me and you are you."

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Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Jul 12, 2011

Bernhard Schlink

“I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.”

Source : "Opening Night" by Peter Bogdanovich, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2011.
“The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents â€” because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”
“I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus.”
“When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art is no different. I love to derive inspiration from all types of images: mosaics, hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, woven patterns in textiles, and needlework. There is a lot of very good "pixel" design work before the 20th century, like a 1760 sampler by Elizabeth Laidman that looks like a bitmap font.”
“It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That's fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one”
“Global challenges require collective responses.”

Source : www.cfr.org. September 26, 2013.
“Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It's read and study. And think about what you're studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask 'why?' And know the answers.”
“You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.”

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