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''that aII wiII be discovered.
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''And on top of the fear, I feeI ashamed.
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''But I don't feeI true repentance.
Nor do I feeI true shame.

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''I'm tormented by fear
and ashamed of the whoIe web of Iies.

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''But I feeI no shame for my guiIt,
or not properIy and not enough...

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''and that is what's destroying me.
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''If women are Iike that, it's terribIe!
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''And if they're not, as I hope,
things are iII with me.

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''Then something's wrong with my souI.
I Iack the right sentiments.

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''OId Niemeyer once said to me...
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''when I was onIy a chiId...
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''that it's important to have
the right sentiments.

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''If one had them,
one wouId be spared the worst.

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''If one didn't have them,
one Iived in constant danger...

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''and what peopIe caII 'the deviI'
wouId have you in his power.

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''MercifuI God, is that how I am?''
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She Iaid her head on her arms
and wept bitterIy.

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l thought you might not keep your word.
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Really, Geert! That's the least l can do.
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Don't say that. lt's not always easy.
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Sometimes one can't. Just think back.
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l was expecting you back in Kessin,
after you'd rented the apartment...

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and who didn't come? Effi.
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That was something different.
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Our life in Berlin is just beginning, Effi.
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ln April, when we moved in...
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the season was coming to an end.
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We hardly had time to pay our calls.
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And Woellersdorf...

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