The Reader (1998) (edit title/settings)

Onnie edited the memorable quotes of The Reader Thursday, March 14, 2013.

• Added a quotation: “These are hours without sleep, which is not to say that they're sleepless, because on the contrary, they're not about lack of anything, they're rich and full. Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”
• Added a quotation: “Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept.”
• Added a quotation: “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 I am me and you are you.”
• Added a quotation: “What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horros an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?”
• Added a quotation: “I felt a great emptiness inside, as if I had been searching for some glimpse, not outside but within myself, and had discovered that there was nothing to be found.”
• Added a quotation: “I had the feeling that what we were denying her was not only her wish, but her right. We had cheated her of her rights by getting divorced, and the fact that we did it together didn't halve the guilt.”
• Added a quotation: “It is not true... that one can merely observe the richness of life in the past, whereas one can participate in the present. Doing history means building bridges between the pst and the present, observing both banks of the river, taking an active part on both sides.”
• Added a quotation: “I knew about the helplessness in everyday activities, finding one's way or finding an address or choosing a meal in a restaurant, about how illiterates anxiously stick to prescribed patterns and familiar routines, about how much energy it takes to conceal one's ability to read and write, energy lost to actual living. Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.”

César Lasso approved vila Zvoncica’s request to combine 2 books, including The Reader, Sunday, March 10, 2013.

vila Zvoncica submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Reader, Friday, March 8, 2013.

Amalia N edited the links to supplemental material of The Reader Wednesday, March 6, 2013.

• Added a link: Point of Dew (http://www.pointofdew.com/2013/03/the-reader.html) : A description of the book's main metaphor and similar movies that underline this theme.

César Lasso approved vila Zvoncica’s request to combine 3 books, including The Reader, Wednesday, March 6, 2013.

vila Zvoncica submitted a request to combine 3 books, including The Reader, Sunday, February 24, 2013.

starwolvie approved vila Zvoncica’s request to combine 3 books, including The Reader, Monday, January 28, 2013.

vila Zvoncica submitted a request to combine 3 books, including The Reader, Friday, January 25, 2013.

starwolvie approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 7 books, including The Reader, Wednesday, January 23, 2013.