Pascal Mercier Quotes

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• When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We…
• But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are…
• A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and…
• Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
• Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
• We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much…
• We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a…
• There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no…
• I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.
• 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…
• To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
• To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther.…
• Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
• Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error…

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