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In truth, the dramatics of a life-determining experience are often unbelievably soft.
“It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must be loud and shrill dramatics, washed away by fierce internal surges. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. In truth, the dramatics of a life-determining experience are often unbelievably soft. It has so little akin to the bang, the flash, of the volcanic eruption that, at the moment it is made, the experience is often not even noticed. When it deploys its revolutionary effect and plunges a life into a brand-new light giving it a brand-new melody, it does that silently and in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility.”
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon (Grove Press; October 7, 2008) (via Whiskey River & Alive on All Channels)
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seni okuyan biri olarak sevdim, seni çok sevdim. seni yiyip bitiren bu okuma düşkünlüğün bana tekinsiz görünse de.
pascal mercier - lizbon'a gece treni
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04.07.2022 // this summer i feel very at peace with myself. i have moments of doubt but it seems as if i always find my balance. spent two hours of today laying in the grass and reading while enjoying the sun on my skin. the sunset is my favourite part of the day. i spend a lot of time just admiring it and existing in this very moment.
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Bir uçağa atlamak ve birkaç saat sonra bambaşka bir dünyaya varmak... Belki de en ihtiyacım olan şey buydu.
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“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” - Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
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Zeit war immer Zeit mit dir gewesen, geteilte Zeit. Eine andere Zeit hatte ich nicht gekannt. [...] Es klingt verrückt und unglaubhaft, aber so war es. Ich hatte nie daran gedacht, dass ich eines Tages in eine leere Zukunft würde hineinleben müssen, eine Zukunft voll von deiner Abwesenheit.
Pascal Mercier, Der Klavierstimmer
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İçimizde olanın ancak küçük bir kısmını yaşayabiliyorsak - gerisine ne oluyor?
Lizbon'a Gece Treni
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“İkimiz sanki tehlikeli geçmişten artık korkmamız gerekmeyen bir geleceğe uzanan daracık ve sağlam olmayan bir köprüden geçer gibiydik. Artık birbirimizden kaçmamıza gerek yoktu.”
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Vergeh dich ruhig, vergeh dich an dir selbst und tu dir Gewalt an, meine Seele; doch später wirst du nicht mehr Zeit haben, dich zu achten und zu respektieren. Denn ein Leben nur, ein einziges, hat jeder. Es aber ist für dich fast abgelaufen, und du hast in ihm keine Rücksicht auf dich selbst genommen, sondern hast getan, als ginge es bei deinem Glück um die anderen Seelen. Diejenigen aber, die die Regungen der eigenen Seele nicht aufmerksam verfolgen, sind zwangsläufig unglücklich. 
Marc Aurel
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It has so little akin to the bang, the flash, of the volcanic eruption that, at the moment it is made, the experience is often not even noticed.
“It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must be loud and shrill dramatics, washed away by fierce internal surges. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. In truth, the dramatics of a life-determining experience are often unbelievably soft. It has so little akin to the bang, the flash, of the volcanic eruption that, at the moment it is made, the experience is often not even noticed. When it deploys its revolutionary effect and plunges a life into a brand-new light giving it a brand-new melody, it does that silently and in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility.”
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon (Grove Press, 2006) (via Whiskey River)
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Louis Moe
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"Buried under all the mute experiences are those unseen ones that give our life its form, its color, and its melody. Then, when we turn to these treasures, as archaeologists of the soul, we discover how confusing they are. The object of contemplation refuses to stand still, the words bounce off the experience and in the end, pure contradictions stand on the paper. For a long time, I thought it was a defect, something to be overcome. Today I think it is different: that recognition of the confusion is the ideal path to understanding these intimate yet enigmatic experiences. That sounds strange, even bizarre, I know. But ever since I have seen the issue in this light, I have the feeling of being really awake and alive for the first time."
- Pascal Mercier
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"What I want is to live of that initial and primordial Something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human."
- Clarice Lispector
[alive on all channels]
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When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want - it could be said - to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.
-Pascal Mercier (Peter Bieri), Night Train To Lisbon
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Uczucie nie jest już to samo, gdy chodzi po raz drugi. Umiera przez świadomość jego powrotu. Stajemy się zmęczony i znużony nasze uczucia, kiedy się zbyt często i trwają zbyt długo.
~Pascal Mercier:"Nocny pociąg do Lizbony"
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