“ 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. ”
- Pascal Mercier- Copy
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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. ”
- Pascal Mercier- Copy
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“ Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us what happens with the rest? ”
- Pascal Mercier- Copy
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“ 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 difficult love for it must incessantly separate the luminosity of the words and the violent verbal subjugation by a complacent God. The hatred is a difficult hatred for how can you allow yourself to hate words that are part of the melody of life in this part of the world? Words that taught us early on what reverence is? ”
- Pascal Mercier- Copy
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“ Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs. ”
- Pascale Petit- Copy
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“ Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence. ”
- Pascal Quignard- Copy
“ There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a nonreader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people. ”
- Pascal Mercier- Copy
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“ There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a nonreader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people. ”
- Pascal Mercier- Copy
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