‘In quoting others, we cite ourselves.’ - Julio Cortázar
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‘One should never be cured of one’s passions.’
Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, 1964
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‘To honor the memory of anonymous human beings is harder than honoring the memory of famous ones.’ - Walter Benjamin
Dani Karavan : Passages, Walter Benjamin Memorial, Portbou, Spain, 1994
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‘You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interests, his habits
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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‘The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.’
Walter Benjamin, One Way Street, 1979
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‘Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with slanted yellow light.’
Paul Monette - Borrowed Time, 1988
Martin Parr - Italy, Rimini, 1999
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‘… you regret the days
the nights blame you
life hurts so much
desperate where are you going?’
Alejandra Pizarnik - La enamorada (The Lover), 1962
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‘In the end we only regret the changes we didn’t take.’
Marcello Mastroianni
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‘When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.’ -
Marcello Mastroianni, 1976
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‘This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, of only because they are alive.’ -
Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome, 1947 | Moravia, Rome 1988
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‘What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?’ -
Alberto Moravia, Agostino, 1945
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‘And we all know love is a glass
which makes even a monster appear fascinating.’
Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome, 1947
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‘The truth is that one easily forgets what one does not want to remember.’
Albert Moravia, A Ghost at Noon, 1955
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‘In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read much of the night, and go south in the winter.’
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
Hiver à Nice, Côte d’Azur
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‘If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable …’
T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, Four Quartets, No. 1, 1936
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‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.’ - T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1910
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‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality.’
T. S. Eliot
Burnt Norton 1936; Four Quartets, 1936-1942
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‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934
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‘Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. (…)
In my end is my beginning.’
T.S. Eliot, Four Quarters, Part II: East Coker, V
📷 Fabio Bressanello, Venice
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‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; (…)
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, …’
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
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‘No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job … Poetry remains one person talking to an other … no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is master of prosaic.’
Thomas Stearns Eliot - The Music of Poetry
Lecture University of Glasgow, February 24 1942
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‘No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job … Poetry remains one person talking to an other … no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is master of prosaic.’
Thomas Stearns Eliot - The Music of Poetry
Lecture University of Glasgow, February 24 1942
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