Rafaël

“Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks, the voice of the tribal narrator, squatting in the middle of the cave, and saying one thing after another until the audience falls asleep among their offal and bones. The story is primitive, it reaches back to the origins of literature, before reading was discovered, and it appeals to what is primitive in us. That is why we are so unreasonable over the stories we like, and so ready to bully those who like something else. Intolerance is the atmosphere stories generate.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“To love makes one less clever.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, A Time in Rome

“Par l'imagination nous abandonnons le cours ordinaire des choses. Percevoir et imaginer sont aussi antithétiques que présence et absence. Imaginer c'est s'absenter, c'est s'élancer vers une vie nouvelle.”
― Gaston Bachelard, Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement