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.
[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… - Pascal Mercier
[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…
- Pascal Mercier
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… - Pascal Mercier
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…
Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves. - Pascal Mercier
Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.
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
I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.
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… - Pascal Mercier
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…
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. - Pascal Mercier
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. - Pascal Mercier
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.
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
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.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty! - Pascal Mercier
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!
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