Kaouther Sassi

“The enemy of memory isn’t time; it’s other memories.”
― David Eagleman, The Brain: The Story of You

“If I could stay
in one moment of time
it would be this one –

You sitting across the room
with the warm lamplight soaking you,

looking at me
the way softened and still hungry people do.”
― Emery Allen

“He thought he was in love with a person, when in fact he was in love with an image projected upon that person. Cheryl was not a real person with needs and desires of her own; she was a resource for the satisfaction of his unconscious childhood longings. He was in love with the idea of wish fulfillment and--like Narcissus--with a reflected part of himself.”
― Harville Hendrix, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray