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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.


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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.

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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.



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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?



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.



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