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“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”

Pascal Mercier

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Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

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“For that is the meaning of a farewell in the full, important sense of the word: that the two people, because they part, come…

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Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause…

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“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed…

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“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part will…

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“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must…

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“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it is the…

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It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

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