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Glenn Haybittle
“You'd like to think the death of a person is like the death of a star, that it will enrich the cosmos with precious elements, with added meaning.”
Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice
tags: death

Milan Kundera
“Not long ago, I caught myself experiencing a most incredible sensation. Leafing through a book on Hitler, I was touched by some of his portraits: they reminded me of my childhood. I grew up during the war; several members of my family perished in Hitler's concentration camps; but what were their deaths compared with the memories of a lost period in my life, a period that would never return?”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

A.A. Gill
“Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world's attic, there's another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it's Cardiff.”
A.A. Gill, Table Talk

Michael Cunningham
“Do we ever give anyone the gift they actually want?”
Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

Glenn Haybittle
“Venice can wash through you all the memories you have never made.”
glenn haybittle, The Way Back to Florence
tags: venice

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