Author: Pascal Mercier

Cites

• Jorge Manrique (2)
  • IN: Night Train To Libson (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
    FROM: Coplas De Manrique, (1477), Poem, Spain
  • IN: Night Train to Lisbon (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nuestras vidas son los rios que van a dar en la mar, qu'es el morir. (Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!)
    FROM: Coplas a la Muerte de su Padre, (1479), Poem, Spain
• Michel Montaigne (1)
  • IN: Night Train To Libson (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: 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 the others.
    FROM: Essays, Second books, 1, (1595), Book, France
• Fernando Pessoa (1)
  • IN: Night Train To Libson (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.
    FROM: O Livro do Desassossego, (1982), Book, Portugal
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Lea (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We cast the shadows of our emotions on others and they theirs on us Sometimes we threaten to choke on them But without them there would be no light in our lives
    FROM: Ancient Armenian grave inscription, (None), NULL, Armenia