Olivier

“Je ne pourrai jamais pardonner. Pour moi le pardon est très intime.
Seuls les politiques s'arrogent le droit de gracier ou de pardonner au nom de tous - ce qui est inconcevable pour un crime de masse ou un génocide. Je ne crois pas à la réconciliation par décret. Et tout ce qui se résout trop vite m'effraie. C'est la pacification de l'âme qui amène la réconciliation et non l'inverse.
Je crois à la pédagogie plus qu'à la justice. Je crois au travail dans le temps, au travail du temps. Je veux comprendre, expliquer, me souvenir - dans cet ordre plus précisément.”
― Rithy Panh

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita