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Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

Pascal Mercier
Sometimes
Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd

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 Mercier
Honesty, Temptation, Guilt
Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.366, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

Pascal Mercier
Pain, Worst, Humiliation
Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.222, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?

Pascal Mercier
Imagination, Parent, Littles
Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.278, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Pascal Mercier
Mean, Silence, Bears

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 Mercier
Feelings, Gold, Bars
Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it had never stopped impressing him.

Pascal Mercier
Morning, Children, Real
"Night Train To Lisbon".

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

Pascal Mercier
Lonely, Loneliness, People
Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

Pascal Mercier
Sea, Rivers, Gliding
Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

Pascal Mercier
Color, Soul, Mind
Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.334, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

Pascal Mercier
Loyalty, Decision, Soul

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

Pascal Mercier
Games, Play, Differences
Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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