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 Fantasy 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
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
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier Silence 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 Farewells 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
“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
“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
“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
“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it… — Pascal Mercier Life Copy Share Image
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. — Pascal Mercier Humiliation 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
“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
“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
“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
That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had… — Pascal Mercier Causes 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 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
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Bars 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
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
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
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier Gliding Copy Share Image
