'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
“Z tisíce zkušeností, které učiníme, zformulujeme do slov nejvýš jednu, a i tu spíš náhodně a bez pečlivosti, jakou by si zasloužila.… — 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
[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
Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living. — Pascal Mercier Imagination 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
“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
“Jsme vrstevnaté bytosti, jsme bytosti plné propastných hloubek, s duší z neklidné rtuti, s citem, jehož barva a tvar se proměňuje jako… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Proč mě stopy minulosti tak rozesmutňují, i když jsou to stopy něčeho veselého?” — 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 Past 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
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
“Boundless openness is simply not possible. It is beyond our power. The loneliness of having to conceal, it also exists.” — Pascal Mercier Loneliness 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
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
“You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.” — Pascal Mercier Binding Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. — Pascal Mercier Fear 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 Vanity Copy Share Image
Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves. — Pascal Mercier Bears 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 Different world 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
“O VENENO ARDENTE DO DESGOSTO. THE WHITE HOT POISON OF ANGER. When others make us angry at them- at their shamelessness, injustice,… — Pascal Mercier Anger 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
“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