Manuel Gubernale
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“Si deve incominciare a perdere la memoria, anche solo brandelli di ricordi, per capire che in essa consiste la nostra vita. Senza memoria, la vita non è vita. La nostra memoria è la nostra coerenza, la nostra ragione, il nostro sentimento, persino il nostro agire. Senza di essa non siamo nulla.”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
“Così dunque la vita é rimasta un mistero. E io stesso, per me, sono ancora il primo mistero.”
― L'isola di Arturo
― L'isola di Arturo
“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet. I was making it, standing there, breathing, fixing the air around my body with stillness, trying to capture something—a thought, I guess—as though such a thing were possible, as though I believed in the delusion described in those paintings—that time could be contained, held captive.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Much of history is unwritten. Remember this.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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