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 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…
- Pascal Mercier
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.
[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…
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.
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 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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