Quotes by : Pascal Mercier

I revere the word of God for I love its poetic force. I loathe the word of God for I hate its cruelty.....

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and....

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

...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely....

Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it....

How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of....

Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings....

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return.....

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal....