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“If one know the whole truth about everything, could hear what was unsaid, and see what was parked in the shadows—then would there be any sense in wanting anything at all?”

“Without his marriage, there wouldn’t be the danger, the secrecy, the circumstances that give rise to yearning. […] The marriage that threatens and attenuates their affair is also the ground that nourashes it.”

“Not long ago, when Hans went to the cinema with Ludwig, she sat three rows behind them, just to have some proximity to the man she loves. In the general crush when everyone filed out, Hans brushed against her hand.”

“How to endure the way that the present trickles down moment by moment and becomes the past?”

“Only now, thinks Katharina, do I truly know him. Did he give himself up to her, or she to him? Of, if love is serious, are they indistinguishable?”