Fabiola Giuliani

“Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say.”
― José Saramago, All the Names

“E' curioso a vedere che quasi tutti gli uomini che valgono molto hanno le maniere semplici; e che quasi sempre le maniere semplici sono prese per indizio di poco valore.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“the only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
― José Saramago, The Cave