"AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?"

-- Pascal Mercier

#Real Quotes #Differences Quotes #Soul Quotes

“The feeble soul merely whines and complains.”
“PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.”
“If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.”
“The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.”

Source : Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“In music, all hearts are revealed to us.”

Source : Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1888). “A Teacher of the Violin: And Other Tales”
“But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.”
“Money isn't everything. I've got money and I've got everything, and they're not the same.”
“Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.”

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