"In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom."

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Source : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.424, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Pascal Mercier

#Life Quotes #Years Quotes #Safety Quotes

“He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.”
“My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.”
“I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.”
“Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.”
“Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.”
“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
“The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”
“anger and jeaously are first cousins!”

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