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?
[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.
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…
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.
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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