Quotes by Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

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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 thing — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become ti — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
I revere the word of God for I love its poetic force. I loathe the word of God for I hate its cruelty. The love is a dif — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader--it was quickly noted — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had al — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeki — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That w — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
He had walked on the beach and wished for icy winds to sweep away everything that sounded like mere linguistic habit, a — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
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 w — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
I often feel an aversion, even disgust at the same words written and spoken over and over – at the same expressions, phr — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand inte — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignit — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves. — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself. — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that — Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon