Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“[Vanity's] an unrecognized form of stupidity... you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be… — Pascal Mercier Meaninglessness Copy Share Image
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent.… — Pascal Mercier Books Copy Share Image
What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we… — Pascal Mercier Fantasies Copy Share Image
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Think that you have to die someday, maybe this morning.” “I think of it all the time, and so I play hooky… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand… — Pascal Mercier Beautiful Copy Share Image
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change… — Pascal Mercier Abyss Copy Share Image
In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want… — Pascal Mercier Blindness Copy Share Image
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.… — Pascal Mercier Beauty Copy Share Image
'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not… — Pascal Mercier Contradiction Copy Share Image
When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“What separates me from my present is like a fine mist, an intangible veil, an invisible wall. They don't put up the… — Pascal Mercier Barriers Copy Share Image
To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and… — Pascal Mercier Absence Copy Share Image
“For that is the meaning of a farewell in the full, important sense of the word: that the two people, because they… — Pascal Mercier Farewell Copy Share Image
“Disappointment is considered bad. A thoughtless prejudice. How, if not through disappointment, should we discover what we have expected and hoped for?… — Pascal Mercier Disappointment Copy Share Image
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“I revere the word of God for I love its poetic force. I loathe the word of God for I hate its… — Pascal Mercier God Copy Share Image
I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book,… — Pascal Mercier Books Copy Share Image
“Postoje ljudi koji čitaju i postoje oni drugi. Je li netko čitatelj ili ne-čitatelj - to se brzo otkrije. Među ljudima nema… — Pascal Mercier Reading Copy Share Image
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