To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to believe that the decisive moments of a life when its direction changes for ever must be marked… — Pascal Mercier 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
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
“Getting on an airplane and arriving a few hours later in a completely different world with no time to take in individual… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To… — 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
“What else? Was this what came from thoughts of time running out and death: that all of a sudden you didn’t know… — 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 what it… — Pascal Mercier 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 know of… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences must be… — 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 not lonely,… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier 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 part, come… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part will… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it is the… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
