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

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

Pascal Mercier

#Sometimes Quotes

“Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.”
“I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.”
“Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.”
“If they hadn't scored, we would've won.”
“When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.”

Source : Title of song (1947)
“Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to my network.”
“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
“God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.”

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