Quotes by Pascal Mercier - Page 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 that we can find again only by going back there.
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Moving On
Home
Travel
Going Away
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!
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Duty
Facts
Revolution
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Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.
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Loyalty
Decision
Resolution
Soul
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To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
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Creation
Discovery
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Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.
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Imagine
Life Is
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Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.
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Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.
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Bears
Mean
Silence
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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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Humiliation
Pain
Worst
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Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
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Gliding
Rivers
Sea
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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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Silence
Years
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Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
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Life
Given
Philosophy
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Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
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Imagination
People
Shadow
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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.
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Able
Fear Of Death
Might
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I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.
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Chance
Night
Tunnels
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I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.
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Left
Past
Stills
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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.
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Beautiful
Live In The Moment
Mean
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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.
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Bars
Feelings
Gold
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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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Distinction
People
Reader
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[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.
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Able
Stupidity
Vanity
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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?
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Loneliness
Lonely
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?
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Shadow
Soul
Stories
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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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Color
Mind
Soul
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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?
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Imagination
Littles
Parent
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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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Feelings
Long
Tired
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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
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Differences
Games
Play
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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 want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.
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Glimpse
Soul
Thinking
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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?
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Children
Laughing
Moving
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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.
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Life
Safety
Years
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To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.
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Guilt
Honesty
Temptation
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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.
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Cutting
Important
Missing
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I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.
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Men
Silence
Witty
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'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. 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 had never stopped impressing him.
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Morning
Children
Real
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We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?
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Dream
Lying
Past
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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?
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Going Away
Loneliness
Regret
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SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. 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? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?
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Clever
Loneliness
Lonely
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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 that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.
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Book
Giving Up
Moving
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AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?
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Differences
Real
Soul
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