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
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
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
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. — Pascal Mercier Chance Copy Share Image
“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need them against the… — Pascal Mercier Beauty Copy Share Image
“Boundless openness is simply not possible. It is beyond our power. The loneliness of having to conceal, it also exists.” — Pascal Mercier Boundless 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
So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to… — Pascal Mercier Able Copy Share Image
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 Absence 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
'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were… — Pascal Mercier Causes 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
“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
“...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different… — Pascal Mercier History Copy Share Image
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible.… — Pascal Mercier Absence 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
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
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 Bigger 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
“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
“Door intimiteit zijn we met elkaar verbonden en de onzichtbare banden zijn bevrijdende boeien. De verbondenheid is gebiedend: ze vereist exclusiviteit. Delen… — 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 Decisive moments 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 Airplane 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
“Jsme vrstevnaté bytosti, jsme bytosti plné propastných hloubek, s duší z neklidné rtuti, s citem, jehož barva a tvar se proměňuje jako… — Pascal Mercier Toga 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 Awareness Copy Share Image
“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without… — Pascal Mercier Experiences 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
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