Top 36 Pascal Mercier Quotes

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

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#3. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

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#4. 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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#5. Boundless openness is simply not possible. It is beyond our power. The loneliness of having to conceal, it also exists.

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#6. Getting on an airplane and arriving a few hours later in a completely different world with no time to take in individual images of the road - he didn't like that and it bothered him.

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#7. Sleepless people were bound by a wordless solidarity.

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#8. Think that you have to die someday, maybe this morning."
"I think of it all the time, and so I play hooky from the office and let myself bask in the sun.

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#9. You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. He had walked on the beach and wished for icy winds to sweep away everything that sounded like mere linguistic habit, a malicious kind of habit that prevented thinking by producing the illusion that it had already taken place and found its conclusion in the hollow words.

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#13. Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

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#14. 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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#15. Loyalty ... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

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

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#17. Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language out of me so that I could come back with a cleansed mind, cleansed of the banalities of the same talk.

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#18. Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

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#19. Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

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#20. It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

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#21. How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.

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#22. Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us
what happens with the rest?

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#23. 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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#24. When you have discovered disappointment as the guide to yourself, you will be eager to learn how much you are disappointed about yourself: about

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#25. Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

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#26. 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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#27. Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care it deserves.

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader
it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. When dictatorship becomes a fact, revolution becomes a right!

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#34. Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.

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#35. [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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#36. 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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