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“To save yourself by means of what has ruined you, that is the masterpiece of great men.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Your relationship with objects is selective, personal; only the things you feel yours become yours: it is a relationship with the physicality of things, not with an intellectual or affective idea that takes the place of seeing them and touching them. And once they are attached to you, marked by your possession, the objects no longer seem to be there by chance, they assume meaning as elements of a discourse, like a memory composed of signals and emblems.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Do you remember our sweet life
When we were so young, we two,
And had in our hearts no other desire
Than to be well dressed and be in love
When by adding your age to mine
We couldn't reach forty years between us
And, in our humble little home
Everything, even in winter, seemed spring?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler