What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted a…

Bernhard Schlink
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ✨ Bernhard Schlink (2001). The Reader, p.91, Vintage
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We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths. ✨ FaceBook post byBernhard Schlink from Aug 10, 2010
It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and every … ▶
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? ✨ Bernhard Schlink (2001). The Reader, p.182, Vintage
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. ✨ Bernhard Schlink (2001). The Reader, p.18, Vintage

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ✨ Bernhard Schlink (2001). The Reader, p.91, Vintage

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