Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Pascal Mercier's Popular 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 glari…

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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 that we can find agai…

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

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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 some…

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

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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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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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

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