Night Train To Lisbon

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I've been running around quoting "Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us - what happens to the rest? But, in the current climate, I am concerned that I will have my account closed down by the GR censors if I don't explain myself more fully, so I guess I'd better do so.

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Die Philosophie, zumindest die große, nicht mit dem Tagesgeschäft des rationellen Bedenkens befasste Philosophie, hat, dank Peter Bieri, der sich seinen Mercier hält, mehr zu sagen, als sie sich zu sagen traut. Or more accurately, it’s a book featuring a collector of books, a man obsessed with the profundity of words. Ein Buch über die Sehnsucht nach einem erfüllten Leben, welches geprägt ist von der Endlichkeit des irdischen Seins. We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet- and this part will taste bitter as cyanide- that we have wasted too much, much too much strength and time on getting angry and getting even with others in a helpless shadow theater, which only we, who suffered impotently, knew anything about. During the Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan on 21 March 2014, the wall of the second floor of the Legislative Yuan was sprayed with a quote from the work, "when dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a duty.With this introspective approach, Mercier is able to review concepts of "who we are, how we control our experience of life, and how fragile that construction is.

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His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others. Hurtling through the dark, Night Train to Lisbon is a rich tale, wonderful told, propelled both by the mystery at its heart and its evocative subject. Still, there is very much to like about the story of a man who expresses that "given that we can only live a small part of what there is within us, what happens to the rest? I don't know what to do here except to repeat, once more, that Goodreads management is not at all like a Fascist dictatorship.He interviews family and friends, and former teachers of the fictitious author, even camping out in the author’s abandoned school building. One must admit that there are certain mechanisms in common, though the details of execution are of course completely different. sie der Autor sogar vorbereitet hat, wird gar nicht erwähnt, stattdessen wird ganz zart ein Happy End in Portugal signalisiert. It's a long trip of self-discovery -- and of trying to discover another (in this case the Portuguese doctor) -- but Mercier manages to sustain the reader's interest. A lot of Prado’s scribbles deal with our inherent inability to know other people, and of the struggle to know our own selves as honestly as possible.