It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. — Pascal Mercier Humiliation Copy Share Image
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier Hear Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? — Pascal Mercier Casts 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
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
“Should we be grateful for the protection that guards us from the strangeness of one another? And for the freedom it makes… — Pascal Mercier Freedom 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… — Pascal Mercier Addiction 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 Inspirational-quotes-about-life 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 Crossroads 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
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes… — Pascal Mercier Failure 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… — Pascal Mercier Books 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… — Pascal Mercier Causes 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 Failure Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. — Pascal Mercier Afraid Copy Share Image
Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living. — Pascal Mercier Imagination Copy Share Image
Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves. — Pascal Mercier Bears Copy Share Image
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier Gliding Copy Share Image
“Proč mě stopy minulosti tak rozesmutňují, i když jsou to stopy něčeho veselého?” — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.” — Pascal Mercier Binding Copy Share Image
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest? — Pascal Mercier Given Copy Share Image
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? — Pascal Mercier Creation 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 Deceptive 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 Able 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 Composition 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
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
I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out… — Pascal Mercier Past 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 Behinds 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
“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
When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in… — Pascal Mercier Feels 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 Deny 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
“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 Feel sorry 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 Death 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
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