Chuck LoPresti

“A few drops of water, a little humidity is enough to dissolve the salt nails, and then all is one: the dust and what is made of dust.”
― Luisa Valenzuela, He Who Searches

“Just as gold shines forth when the lazy slag has been melted away, so too does the departed stand transfigured before our eyes after sloughing off the bodily husk; in the night of death, we make out constellations that we failed to see, or neglected, in the daytime of life.”
― Dr. Mises, Stapelia Mixta

“I asked myself whether a life devoid of any affection, of any goal, a life one fills with a thousand trifles intended to relieve its monotony, populated with human beings one seeks out in order not to be alone and whom one flees to avoid being bored by them, whether such a life isn't ridiculous, whether anything whatsoever wouldn't be preferable.”
― Emmanuel Bove, A Winter's Journal

“Sometimes even the night is enough, rather than the dream which makes real for the soul that which it lacks or that which it has lost.”
― Pascal Quignard, Terrasse à Rome