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“Life cannot be experienced deeply without kindness, just as life cannot be experienced deeply without art.”
― The War in Venice
― The War in Venice
“There are one or two places in the world that know our secrets.”
― The War in Venice
― The War in Venice
“Beauty is a private moment in the mind, which we then seek to communicate.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth
“Most of us carry around the extravagant hope that the world can at least catch a glimpse of what we consider to be our true face. We can't help harbouring the desire that past achievements and former incarnations still reveal some glimpse of themselves on our person. That people might be able to read the history of a face and not just its live bulletins.”
― Scorched Earth
― Scorched Earth
“She quickly learned that the sight of Venice at given moments can root you in your deepest longings. It can also make you realise your identity too is built on shifting water, consists of rising and falling tides, countless ephemeral reflections and refractions. Venice can wash through you the love you have never made, the battles you have never fought, the beauty you have never created. It can flood to the surface everything you have lost and everything you have never known. It can reveal you to yourself without your carnival masks.”
― The War in Venice
― The War in Venice
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