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Pascal Mercier Quotes

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation Picture Quote #1

I love tunnels. They ‘re the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night Picture Quote #1

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 the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories? Picture Quote #1

Isn’t it true that it’s not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? Picture Quote #1

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! Picture Quote #1

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul Picture Quote #1

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Human beings can’t bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves Picture Quote #1

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we’re afraid of something else Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it Picture Quote #1

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 and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn’t it like magic? Picture Quote #1

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Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years Picture Quote #1

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 weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long Picture Quote #1

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 me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom Picture Quote #1

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 kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken Picture Quote #1

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 we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life? Picture Quote #1

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 be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? Picture Quote #1

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So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be Picture Quote #1

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation Picture Quote #1

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace Picture Quote #1

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 there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others Picture Quote #1

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To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation (Pascal Mercier Quotes) I love tunnels. They ‘re the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories? (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Isn’t it true that it’s not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Human beings can’t bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we’re afraid of something else (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 (Pascal Mercier Quotes) I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn’t it like magic? (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life? (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? (Pascal Mercier Quotes) So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be (Pascal Mercier Quotes) It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation (Pascal Mercier Quotes) Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace (Pascal Mercier Quotes) 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 there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others (Pascal Mercier Quotes)