Quotes by : Pascal Mercier

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.

We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part....

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....

One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments,....

Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not....

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