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“there must be thousands of people in this city who are dying to welcome you into their small bolted rooms, to sit you down and tell you what has happened to their lives. and the night smells like snow. walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. and an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. it's unendurable, unendurable”
― Franz Wright

“with the passing of the years each neighbourhood each street in a city evokes a memory a meeting a regret a moment of happiness for those who were born there and have lived there. often the same street is tied up with successive memories to the extent that the topography of a city becomes your whole life called to mind in successive layers”
― Patrick Modiano

“All that energy and activity wasted to find somebody who had in reality been dead for so long, for whom the time of the present was little more than a process of slow physical dissolution, and of the mindless lack of identity of the missing person so long called by name, the very appearance of life itself, of time in the present is stripped away. We feel in its place the presence of graves beneath the bright sunlight; the present fades to little more than a dusty, once-lived moment which will quickly take its place in the back years of an old newspaper file.”
― Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

“it falls and it stays and it goes it melts and it is here somewhere we all will get there”
― Frederick Seidel