Pascal Mercier Quotes

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• What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can…
• So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.
• We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us…
• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!
• Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge…
• In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand…
• Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.
• AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer…
• [Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and…
• It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being…
• Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.
• Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.
• What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody…
• I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.
• To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
• 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, and…
• Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.
• That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary…
• Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.
• I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it…

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