Arianna

“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu

“The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“Les fruits de l'amour passent vite, ceux de l'art sont immortels.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room