Isidora Markovic

“Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity

“I shall try to conjure up each of the sentences engraved in my memory which were either so unbearable or so comforting to me at the time that the mere thought of them today engulfs me in a wave of horror or sweetness.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

“the very basic theme of poetry is that of time passing, the very basic theme of painting is that of the moment made permanent.”
― John Berger, Portraits: John Berger on Artists

“And, long after the amorous relation is allayed, I keep the habit of hallucinating the being I have loved: sometimes I am still in anxiety over a telephone call that is late, and no matter who is on the line, I imagine I recognize the voice I once loved: I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments