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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 that we can find again only by going back there."

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 that we can find again only by going back there.



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."

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: "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!"

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul."

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.




Pascal Mercier Quotes: "Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living."

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.



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."

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: "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 greater distinction between people."

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 greater distinction between people.




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?"

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: "So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be."

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: "Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?"

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?



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."

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: "To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?"

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."

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: "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?"

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: "Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!"

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



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else."

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.



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."

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: "Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves."

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "[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 that's a glaring form of stupidity."

[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 that's a glaring form of stupidity.



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "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 if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?"

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 if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?



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."

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

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



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation."

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



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "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 difference between us and ourselves as between us and others"

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 difference between us and ourselves as between us and others



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself."

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.



Pascal Mercier Quotes: "Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves."

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.