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“He’d seen for the first time how easily one might neglect those one loved by chasing the big story, the big lie that history was a matter of ideals and not compassion.”
― Alex Christofi, Let Us Be True

“As he heard a brief click, Ralf thought about what had happened in that moment which had already passed. For just one hundredth of a second, the shutter had opened and photons had flooded into the dark box. They did not move in lines but everywhere at once, so that some might have travelled from Ralf’s face to the end of the beach and back. They went so quickly that, from the perspective of light, the rest of the universe remained at a standstill.

For Ralf and Elsa, time was slipping by irrecoverably, but for that single hundredth of a second, the celluloid recorded its bombardment, like the sooty negatives of objects and people, scorched onto the façades of buildings in bombings. The celluloid had ceased to interact with the world, a carpaccio of time, a leaf of the past brought into the present, where Ralf and Elsa stood together, still.”
― Alex Christofi, Let Us Be True

“We may struggle one way but we are all being dragged another by our heritage, by history.”
― Alex Christofi, Let Us Be True

“Când privesc în urmă și mă gândesc cât timp am irosit, cât timp am pierdut cu iluziile, cu greșelile, cu lenea mea și neștiința de a trăi, cum n-am știut să prețuiesc timpul, cât de des am păcătuit împotriva mea — simt cum îmi sângerează inima. Viața e un dar, viața înseamnă fericire, fiecare minut putea fi un secol de fericire. Tinerii nu știu cum să-și gospodărească tinerețea! Acum simt că renasc spre mai bine.”

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Dostoievski indragostit
Alex Christofi”
― Alex Christofi