9 quotes found
“The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.”
“Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.”
“I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...”
“I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sens...”
“A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be remade? Yet someone would, no doubt, attempt to repeat their journey, sooner ...”
“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no ...”
“A memory is a luminous miniature, like the hologram of the princess, in that movie, that the faithful robot carried in his circuits from galaxy to galaxy. The sadness inherent in any memory comes f...”
“He couldnt believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writers privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.”
“The voice, for its part, has the peculiarity that when released it carries the weight of the body from which it has come; since that weight is erotic reality, lovers believe they can embrace words ...”
