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Pascal Mercier Quotes: But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?
         

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?


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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 things in us that we can find again only by going back there.



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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!



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

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



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Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.



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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.



There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.



So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

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





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