Manel Hedhili

“Oh, pride, pride. I was so wrong. It defeated me. It simply proved insurmountable. There was so much, oh, far too much for me. I mean, there's the weather, there's the water and the land, there are the animals, and the buildings, and the past and the future, there's space, there's history. There's this thread or something caught between my teeth, there's the old woman across the way, did you notice she switched the donkey and the squirrel on her windowsill? And, of course, there's time. And place. And there's you, Mrs. D. I wanted to tell part of the story of part of you. Oh, I'd love to have done that."

"Richard. You wrote a whole book."

"But everything's left out of it, almost everything. And then I just stuck on a shock ending. Oh, now, I'm not looking for sympathy, really. We want so much, don't we?"

"Yes. I suppose we do."

"You kissed me beside a pond."

"Ten thousand years ago."

"It's still happening.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
― Rumi

“Imaginer c'est choisir.”
― Jean GIONO

“Les hommes de valeur ont toujours, tous, plus ou moins le cul entre deux chaises. Y aurait-il dévouement sans envie de se faire plaisir à soi-même ? Et envie irrésistible ? Voilà un saint. Un héros lâche, voilà l'nage. Mais un héros courageux, quel mérite y a-t-il ? Il se faisait plaisir. Il se satisfait. Ce sont les hommes, mâle et femelle, dont parlent les prêtres ; qui s'y entendent : ils se satisfont d'eux-mêmes. Y a-t-il jamais dévouement désintéressé ? Et même, ajoutait-il, s'il existe, l'absence totale d'intérêt n'est-elle pas alors le signe de l'orgueil le plus pur”
― Jean Giono, The Horseman on the Roof