María Orellana

“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a mahogany box, lifts the lid, lets the letter fall inside, open and unaddressed. In the box are hundreds of identical envelopes, open and unaddressed. He thinks that somewhere in the world he will meet a woman who has always been his woman. Every now and again he regrets that destiny has been so stubbornly determined to make him wait with such indelicate tenacity, but with time he has learned to consider the matter with great serenity. Almost every day, for years now, he has taken pen in hand to write to her. He has no names or addresses to put on the envelopes: but he has a life to recount. And to whom, if not to her? He thinks that when they meet it will be wonderful to place the mahogany box full of letters on her lap and say to her, 'I was waiting for you.'

"She will open the box and slowly, when she so desires, read the letters one by one. As she works her way back up the interminable thread of blue ink she will gather up the years-- the days, the moments-- that that man, before he ever met her, had already given to her. Or perhaps more simply, she will overturn the box and astonished at that comical snowstorm of letters, she will smile, saying to that man, 'You are mad.' And she will love him forever.”
― Alessandro Baricco

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

“Vos creés que hay una realidad postulable porque vos y yo estamos hablando en este cuarto y en esta noche, y porque vos y yo sabemos que dentro de una hora o algo así va a suceder aquí una cosa determinada. Todo eso te da una gran seguridad ontológica, me parece; te sentís bien seguro en vos mismo, bien plantado en vos mismo y en esto que te rodea. Pero si al mismo tiempo pudieras asistir a esa realidad desde mí, o desde Babs, si te fuera dada una ubicuidad, entendés, y pudieras estar ahora mismo en esta misma pieza desde donde estoy yo y con todo lo que soy y lo que he sido yo, y con todo lo que es y lo que ha sido Babs, comprenderías tal vez que tu egocentrismo barato ono te da ninguna realidad válida. Te da solamente una creencia fundada en el error, una necesidad de afirmar lo que te rodea para no caerte dentro del embudo y salir por el otro lado vaya a saber adónde.”
― Cortazar, Julio