... тя свири така, сякаш строи имагинерна катедрала от звуци, в която някой ден би могла да се подслони, когато вече няма да е в състояние да понася живота.
Pascal MercierWe 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 MercierStichwörter: life past identity home moving-on travel leaving
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal MercierStichwörter: illusions perception honesty self-deception understanding self-awareness character self-knowledge self-image personality
To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.
Pascal MercierStichwörter: honesty courage self-respect self-awareness character self-knowledge self-image personality dignity
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
Pascal MercierStichwörter: life carpe-diem fulfillment
Man darf die anderen nicht zu Bausteinen des eigenen Lebens machen, zu Wasserträgern beim Rennen um die eigene Seeligkeit.
Pascal MercierStichwörter: leben seeligkeit
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.
Pascal MercierStichwörter: illusions deception self-deception kitsch
Soms ben je ergens bang voor omdat je ergens anders bang voor bent.
Pascal MercierPostoje ljudi koji čitaju i postoje oni drugi. Je li netko čitatelj ili ne-čitatelj - to se brzo otkrije. Među ljudima nema veće razlike od te. Ljudi bi se čudili kad bi to tvrdio, a neki bi i odmahivali glavom zbog toliko zadrtosti. Ali bilo je to tako. Gregorius je to znao. Znao.
Pascal MercierStichwörter: reading
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others.
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