"...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents."

-- Bernhard Schlink

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“From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.”
“I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.”
“Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.”
“You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.”
“My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.”
“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.”

Source : Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.155, Random House
“Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.”
“We have no home, she told me. I am your home.”

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