Claudio

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.”
― E.B. White

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia. ”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez