Tag: Bernhard Schlink

  • Reflections: Regrets. Past. Experience

    Reflections: Regrets. Past. Experience

    “Don’t have any regrets. You couldn’t have done anything different back then. You would have had to be a different person.” Bernhard Schlink, The Woman on the Stairs Photo: Muhmed Alaa El-Bank

  • Directions: Choices. Uncertainty. Experience

    Directions: Choices. Uncertainty. Experience

    “Whenever I’m in a foreign country, I ask myself if I’d be happier there. When I walk down a street and see people standing on a corner, talking and laughing, I imagine that if I lived there, I might stand happily on that corner, talking and laughing. When I walk past an outdoor café and…