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“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Bucureştiul, îndeosebi, are cele mai toxice amurguri, în toate anotimpurile. E greu să rămâi singur, să nu te îndrăgosteşti, să nu-ţi cauţi pereche într-un astfel de oraş, în care soarele se stinge cu atâta melancolie...”
― Mircea Eliade, Nuntă în cer