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Quote by Bernhard Schlink

“We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.”

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German writer known for his novel 'The Reader'. Born on July 6, 1944, Bernhard Schlink's works often explore themes of morality, history, and memory. more

“Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?”

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”

Looks Long Water Wind Long Time Lonely Down And Bones Sand Roof Murmuring Deep Water

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

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