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“Un jour, j'ai vu le soleil se coucher quarante-trois fois!»
Et un peu plus tard tu ajoutais:
«Tu sais... quand on est tellement triste on aime les couchers de soleil...
- Le jour des quarante-trois fois tu étais donc tellement triste?
Mais le petit prince ne répondit pas.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“The minute you start saying something—‘Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!’—you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity, the second to madness.” “You’re the one who’s mad and stupid,” his friends would say to him, “and a pain in the ass into the bargain.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres. Même l’acte si simple que nous appelons « voir une personne que nous connaissons » est en partie un acte intellectuel”
― Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann

“He had to follow the opposite path: aim at a portrait completely on the surface, evident, unequivocal, that did not elude conventional appearance, the stereotype, the mask. The mask, being first of all a social, historical product, contains more truth than any image claiming to be “true”;”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves