Nermine Tadross

“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“One thing you cannot know:
The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it.
You only know what it is not to hope:
You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless
Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion

“I for one have never believed there is such a thing as a collective memory which maybe one way humans protect themselves. The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.” Ernesto Sabato in The Tunnel”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel